New Year's Resolutions,The in's and out's, Here's what I know.
- KC
- Feb 4, 2020
- 3 min read
Most people like myself seem to find themselves creating new year resolutions. I know I never complete my whole list of resolutions. In fact, I barely complete one. Every year I find myself creating a list with the same resolutions. I often wondered where I went wrong and how to change it. Reading these two articles on new year’s resolutions gave me two good point of views. I also took some great tips out of the articles. The first article encouraged new year’s resolutions. Chaudhuri gave ways to help you be successful with your new year’s resolutions. Where Beheshti’s article addressed new year’s resolutions and pointed out that statistics show that most aren’t successful. She gave another way to achieve your goals and to keep them going. Beheshti’s article resonated with me a lot more than Chaudhuri’s article did. Being someone who has struggled with resolutions, and someone who never understood where I was going wrong. Reading Beheshti’s article was an eye opener. I feel as if I can tackle my struggles and goals and be successful.
The first article was, Anita Chaudhuri’s article, Struggling with New Year’s resolutions? We can help. The main point was willpower. We can all set a goal and say what and how we want to be different. What makes your goal more achievable than someone else’s? Your willpower. Anita made a point that we are not all born with a talent for willpower. It is something we have to learn and enforce. Even if you don’t have a new thing you want to achieve for the new year. We should still incorporate willpower into our year and our future. Metaphorically speaking, when we hit a bump in the road, we give up. We switch up our goal or plan. We lose motivation. If our willpower is greater, we will be less inclined to give up.
The second article was, New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Last. Do this instead, written by Naz Beheshti. She breaks down New year’s resolutions, what they are, where they are rooted from, and most importantly, why they don’t work for most people. Beheshti made the point that, most people every year make new year’s resolutions again and again, hoping at some point this time it will be different. Beheshti stated, “New Year’s resolutions are a flawed way to reach an admirable goal.” As expressed in the article, there are many reasons why new year’s resolutions are unsuccessful. We tend to underestimate how long it takes to kick a bad habit or to make a good one. Some may say it can take a little short of a month. Studies show it takes up to sixty-six days. We tend to make long lists of habits we want to kick. Failing to realize that every single one of those habits, in itself is very hard to achieve. Let alone a whole list.
We make a new year’s resolution and focus on the future. Beheshti made a point that focusing on the future, can cause anxiety and cause us to give up due to doubt and frustration. Instead, she says to focus on here and now. Focus on the present. She says, to put less pressure on yourself by making regular daily, weekly, and monthly intentions. Basically, to start of small. If you don’t know how to swim you can’t expect to jump into the ocean and expect the outcome.
In conclusion, both articles were great. I took a lot of information out of the two. I am overall glad I chose New Year's resolutions as my topic.
References:
Chaudhuri, A. (2020) Struggling with New Year’s resolutions? We can help. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/10/struggling-with-new-year-resolutions-willpower
Beheshti, N. (2020) New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Last. Do this instead.
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