Thoughts on New Year Resolutions

They mean nothing if you don’t commit to them.

I did it once. To swear off soda for a whole year, which I did to completion. I made no plans to make other resolutions for other years. Mainly because overall I think the concept of New Year’s Resolutions are dumb.

It’s only symbolic because it’s the whole “brand new year, time for new beginnings” concept. Without the whole terminology, resolutions are just goals and goals are things you can set any time during the course of the year.

To spend a whole year trying to accomplish one specific thing is near impossible. Things change and honestly, it makes you commit less to it over time. Your motivation is lost because it’s either something you’ve been telling yourself to do every new year, or you’re not committing enough to it because so much time has passed by.

I prefer to set goals on a monthly basis. That way, if you fail one, you can readjust and work on trying to improve your approach. This gives you a monthly review to look within yourself and keep yourself oriented on what you want to achieve. You wait until the end of the year to do that, you might forget what your resolution was in the first place. Also, you probably don’t remember every event that caused you to fail it.

Everyone has a different approach to it. This is mine, which I consider the approach for serious failures who often have more failed goals than successes, because failure is the driving force.