Hello class, today we'll be talking about the usual New Year resolutions. Pardon the introduction; I just couldn't resist the urge to start off with a different style.
Everyone has made a New Year resolution to do different things, but truth be told, how many will adhere to those resolutions?

I remember some years ago when I was the new year resolution person, by December, I would have made a long list of things I wanted to do in the coming year and I would tell myself no matter what, those things would be adhered to.
Fast forward one week into the new year, I am pretty sure I will find myself repeating those same things I said I won't do.

An addiction sometimes appear impossible to break not because it is as gargantuan as we make it to be, but because we focus so hard on it that we forget to forget it

So I came up with that quote above and I am already giving myself a round of applause for it. The thing about resolutions is this, when we work so hard to keep them, we might end up breaking them because we focus too much on it, the desire to overpower it might lose its boost.

You cannot do something you don't even remember. An example is that of a person addicted to chewing gums, you might eventually forget to chew gums if you are occupied with other stuffs, and not remembering to even buy the gum in the first place.

The New Year, new system or new me method is just a way to encourage ourselves that we can do better if we try. Some people actually begin to feel like failures if they do not meet all their New Year resolutions.

While it is okay to feel bad if some goals are left upturned, it is wrong to totally categorize one’s self as a colossal failure for simply failing to meet certain goals. Instead of focusing on the ones which never came to fruition, why not build on the ones that you achieved and mark and celebrate those.

If your goal is not money related or for the betterment of your personality, there is a high likelihood that you might end up breaking it or compromising. This is neither a generalization nor a proven fact; it was merely drawn from observation.

When we make a resolution, we have to understand the gravity of the decision we are about undertaking, because a resolution is not complete without actions. Those actions must be firm and concise and like I said not every resolution can be achieved.

If your resolution is character related for instance, unless you try to forget your old self, you cannot gain a new one. You cannot put a new wine in an old wine skin. So whatever you choose to do this New Year, first of all ensure it is feasible and realistic, secondly, make sure it is something that won’t make you really need or want.