If I hear that “New Year, New You” tagline one more time during the holidays, I am going to go crazy. By making a resolution for a whole year, you could be setting yourself up for failure because you have a lot of time to either make or break a resolution. I know there are a lot of people, including myself, who don’t have enough self discipline to make the resolutions last a whole year. Making a resolution and trying to hold yourself accountable for it for a whole year is overwhelming and will often times make you feel like a failure simply because you have a lot of time to either make the resolution work or to try and fail.
I totally understand what it is like to try and make New Year’s Resolutions. The first week is not that hard. But, by the second week,that chocolate donut at the office is looking really good, and, you are thinking “Well… it might not hurt if I eat this, even though it's not on my resolution’s list of food.” After this one slip up, it makes it very easy to slip up on other resolutions Prudy Gourguechon Senior Contributor at Forbes, says “New Year’s resolutions typically involve one of three wishes. The wish to stop avoiding something (getting rid of all the junk in your inbox). The wish to stop doing something that makes you feel good (eating, drinking, smoking). Or the wish to start doing something that doesn’t come naturally to you (journal, express gratitude, exercise).”
She is exactly right. It is so hard to give up things that you truly enjoy, like eating. It is also very hard to start things that you really don’t do, like writing in a journal. No wonder so many New Year’s Resolutions fail. We are trying to give up things that we really like and are trying to start to do things that we don’t do, and we are supposed to do this for a whole year? This takes an extra super amount of self discipline.
