WHY NEW YEAR`S RESOLUTION FAILS (HAPPY NEW YEAR) For sure almost everyone as of now has a mental list of habits they would like to change, and the New Year seems like a perfect time to start. “New Year, new you” is a phrase you will see repeated in print. But this is just singsong rhetoric. Just because it sounds right to your ear does not mean that it contains any meaningful truth. The year will certainly change, but you will likely be the same person on Jan. 1, 2014, that you were on Dec. 31, 2013. WHY???? The statistics are bleak: only 8% of people who make New Year’s resolutions stick to them, and those who don’t usually abandon them after just one week. Unrealistic resolutions are fated to fail. And it is unrealistic to think that you can immediately overcome a habit you have spent years establishing. But is this necessarily harmful? There’s a good chance that it is. If your New Year’s resolution is to eat less, but you have no plan in place — or even if you do have a plan and you fail — you will do damage to your sense of self-worth. If you already have a complicated relationship with food, your likely coping mechanism for failure is eating more food. Thus the New Year’s resolution to eat less can actually result in your eating more. Ditto drinking, drug use, smoking, finding a mate, exercising, etc. Wa g`yoy mahitabo` nimo, mao lang gihapon… The practice of making resolutions itself dates back to ancient Babylon, where people like today made promises to their gods for the New Year. But…promises are made to be broken, because we tend to take it for granted and we fail to START something to make it happen. The secret of ACHIEVING WHAT YOU WANT is enumerated as the following: 1. GOAL 2. PLAN 3. WILL POWER 4. ACTION 5. CONSISTENCY So if you have prepared your New Year`s Resolution, don`t just write it, DO IT!!! The SMART way: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time Bounded. If you FAIL to PLAN, then Surely you PLAN TO FAIL. NEW YEAR`s RESOLUTION ANYONE? Basi`g mao lang gihapon sama sa miagi`ng tuig???
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:29:27 +0000
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