We all know what day this is…this is the day that we
go back to look at the New Year’s Resolutions we made last year and feel guilty
for all the ones we didn’t keep. We then torture ourselves a little more by
adding those same resolutions to this year’s list, insisting that we’ll uphold
them this year. Despite not having fulfilled them time and time again we try to
fool ourselves into thinking this year will be different.
So why is it we torture ourselves this way? How do we
break the cycle? Well there is the obvious, stop making resolutions OR we can
make our resolutions realistic. I think if we made the resolutions closer to
something we can achieve, we will actually be successful in fulfilling them.
I decided to do just that, I made a resolution that
was more realistic. Initially the resolution was ‘get a whole new wardrobe’; I
tweaked it to be that I would ‘purchase one new item each month.’ Believe it or
not I actually did just that; I think the reason I stuck with it was because I
didn’t find the task so daunting. To find one classic piece of clothing to add
to my wardrobe really wasn’t that hard.
I found that if I made the task smaller, it didn’t
seem completely unattainable. This tiny task has helped me to get closer to my
overall goal. This is how I think that we all should make resolutions; we might
actually follow through with most of them. I think if I continue to make my
resolutions like this I will continue to feel a sense of accomplishment.
I’m almost excited to get started on this year’s
resolutions!!
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