New Years Resolutions

New Years Resolutions

Every year millions among us go for it, with good intentions they tell themselves and each other: this year I will, or this year I won’t.
Is a new years resolution a good thing?

Some people will say: according to statistics only 20 percent of the people that make a new years resolutions actually keep them.
Others will say: I don’t believe in new years resolutions.

If you truly believe that you are a part of the 80% that won’t keep them, doesn’t that say something about yourself?
If you don’t believe in resolutions, don’t you believe you can’t be a better person than you are right now?

I would like to say this: if you are not perfect, but you want to be a better person,
then what is wrong with making a resolution, it forces you to think about things you might want to improve, and also it can give you insight in the motives that drive you to make them.

If you end up not keeping it, it’s not a big deal: you have put some thinking in it and the motive to not keeping the new years resolution must have counted more heavily then the motive you had when you made the resolution.
Of course I’m forced to say that this does not go the same with addictions, be careful for cravings being misinterpreted as a real motive.
A lot of resolutions count on your own judgement and only you can tell if you kept the resolution.
If you have put a lot of thought in a new years resolution,
you should put some thought in; Is this goal reachable? when will I have reached the goal? What steps do I need to take to reach this goal?

There are multiple types of resolutions, they can help to stop you doing something you don’t want to do any more, or they can help you do something you do want to do, but never had the nerves or heart to try.

Last year I said to myself: I will follow my heart this year.
I tried to put this thought in every choice I made, trying to interpreted my motives and emotions in this one goal, and I made every choice fearless, it didn’t get me anything, but it made me a wiser man and it taught me something about how I want to live my life.

This year my new years resolution is: Not to smoke cannabis for a whole year, if I fail I will check myself in to rehab, and with this in the back of my mind I hope I will last. I hope that this plus the fact I put it in to writing to remind myself of it everyday will help my reach my goal and keep my new years resolution.

Good luck to every one that made a new years resolution.

For all those that didn’t make a new years resolution, it’s not too late yet!