Why I don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions Anymore And Neither Should You
It’s that time of year again where we’re all going to be inundated by the “New Year, New Me” phenomenon.
It’s time for people to make goals for the New Year, all about how they’re going to change their life this year. Except, it never happens.
New year’s goals are arbitrary. In fact, most people drop off their goals within the first two weeks.
It’s an arbitrary time of the year when you could choose to make a change at any point in time. You don’t have to wait for the holidays or New Year.
A lot of the goals we make we don’t actually care about. We pick them because we know they would be good for us, not because we actually want to do them.
If you’re going to be goal-setting, you should pick things you are actually excited about and intend to follow through on. It’s okay, and probably better, to make them on a rolling basis.
By placing such a large emphasis on follow-through at the beginning of the year, it’s like setting yourself up for failure.
You can’t overhaul your life with major goals. It doesn’t work. The only real, sustainable goals are the ones built on habits. And habits start small. They don’t start with grandiose plans and expect willpower alone to get them there.
They don’t overcommit.
The intent to change isn’t really there. It sounds like a good idea, it’s been ingrained in you as something you should do, but it’s not something internally motivated.
When you lack the ability to follow through, you’re led to disappointment. It’s setting yourself up for failure.
You think one day, one practice can make or break your goals.
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People set vague, aimless goals that they have no real intent to follow through. With traces of the holiday still remaining, you wake up hungover on New Year’s Day, already behind on your resolutions.
Why make them if you have no intention to follow through?
New Year’s resolutions are overrated. It’s an arbitrary time of year, where people make outlandish goals that won’t last more than a couple of weeks.
There’s only one resolution out of this: stop making New Year’s resolutions.
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