“The News Year is seen as a time for new starts and clean slates, and is facilitated by the tradition of New Years resolutions. People make plans to stop smoking, get in shape and get organized, but how seriously are these resolutions taken? Think about it, many people make resolutions to make their lives better, but more often than not, that resolution to stay in shape goes to the back burner and it’s another six months before the treadmill is used again.”
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The News Year is seen as a time for new starts and clean slates, and is facilitated by the tradition of New Years resolutions. People make plans to stop smoking, get in shape and get organized, but how seriously are these resolutions taken?

Think about it, many people make resolutions to make their lives better, but more often than not, that resolution to stay in shape goes to the back burner and it’s another six months before the treadmill is used again.

The tradition of making plans to stop bad habits has been going on for hundreds of years and even then people were breaking their resolutions. It’s said if we don’t learn from the past we are bound to repeat it. Haven’t we learned by now that making New Year’s resolutions are like the kiss of death for self- improvement plans?

Guess not.

If a person knows what they want to change about themselves they have probably known this for a while and have just been procrastinating.

People wait for New Years like it is the best time to really start improving themselves, but seriously winter is not a motivating time. While some people find pleasure in spending time in the snow and cold. Most people just want to bundle up and wait until spring.

So it makes the resolution’s destiny more likely to be dismal when started in arguably the most depressing time of year. New Years is not this magical time when all goals can be achieved, a new year may have started but just because the ball drops doesn’t mean it any easier to lose those pesky pounds. Humans are creatures of habit and it takes more than the traditional time of season to change.

There are a mired of reasons the resolutions made just don’t work going from lack of true commitment to failure to sufficiently plan for the goal. People aren’t realistic. If someone has always been a messy, unorganized person buying some organizational baskets and a vacuum will not be enough.

People often overestimate the results that can be achieved. With these unrealistic expectations it’s easy to get in a cycle of unfulfilled resolutions. A person makes a resolution with too high of expectations and not enough planning. Than they get busy or frustrated when the results are not what they envisioned, and when that happens it’s easier to just revert back into old habits, but there is always next year, right? And thus the cycle starts.

New Year’s resolutions are more like a declaration of what a person would like to change rather than a true desire to actually change it. If someone wants to genuinely do something to better themselves, they should not be disheartened by the history of New Years resolutions, they should just not make one.

The tradition of New Year’s resolutions darkens the idea of making change. It’s a social creation to give people the feeling of a new start and the possibility of bettering oneself, but if people seriously want to better themselves don’t wait for a new year, and don’t make a New Years resolution.

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