New Habits

Resolution. A firm decision to do or not to do something. But how firm are our resolutions when after the first month, we find them too difficult to keep up? When January first comes, the gym is full of new members, running their little hearts out but by January fifth, it's a dead zone again. A person decides they're going to lose two or three sizes but after indulging on the third day, they decide they'll start 'tomorrow' then spend the rest of they year saying, "I should (do) ___."

This is why I hate making 'New Year's Resolutions.' While it's true the beginning of a new year is exciting and for many it can be a fresh start, but 80% of the time, resolutions are just a way to set ourselves up for failure.

I dislike using the word 'challenge' much because it's been used so much already that it hardly holds much weight when used, but I challenge you this: Don't make new year's resolutions.

Instead, create for yourself goals that are manageable to reach and that will give you a sense of accomplishment in the end. Find yourself something that tests your abilities in order to broaden your horizons.

Or continue to enhance upon the gifts you were given. Keep working at the goals you started the past year even. A New Year's start is not there to help you throw away old goals and accomplishments, but to expand upon them.

I hardly think a twenty-two year old could give proper advice, so my attempt at some advice to myself and all of you lovely folks out there is this. As this new year begins, work on yourself so that you are a "better version of yourself" than when you started at the year's beginning.

---- Olivia ----