Here’s to a Happy New Year

Since we are welcoming the New Year, I saw it fit to write my first column about New Year‘s resolutions.

Every year, many people make resolutions; some to change their bad behaviours, others to work harder and achieve more in different areas of their lives.

In the days leading up to the New Year, we see people posting Facebook messages and we receive phone calls from friends and family members inquiring about our infamous New Year’s resolutions.

To me, there is no logic in choosing a single day to start major life changes. That’s why New Year’s resolutions don’t work, and when you fail to keep them, you feel like the biggest loser ever.

I am not saying no one has ever succeeded in keeping to a drastic New Year’s resolution, but the majority of New Year’s resolutions never get accomplished.

For example, if every person succeeded in losing weight as resolution, we wouldn’t have an obesity problem.

Let me guess, one of you resolutions last year was to lose weight, or maybe just try to eat healthier. Perhaps you wanted to spend less money on alcohol and save more.

But as you are reading this column, you are sitting there on your comfortable couch and possibly enjoying a greasy burger.

There is nothing wrong with having New Year resolutions, but I have seen people forgetting their resolutions two weeks after the year has begun.

My point here is simple. If you don’t intend to keep the resolutions, you have no business making them. People become depressed in the final months of the year when they look back at their resolutions and realise they have not even accomplished 20 percent of those resolutions.

It’s great to want to live the best life possible.

I am one of those people who always try to be the best I possibly can be, but I tend to think New Year’s resolutions were meant to just depress us.

Over the years, these smaller goals have kept me from getting frustrated every year for not maintaining my New Year’s resolutions.

They have helped to ensure that I am always progressing and propelling my life forward at all times of the year, not just during the first few days.

If you have made resolutions again this year, you have to be committed to these goals, otherwise there is no point in making them.

In fact, you have to be ready to start making lifestyle changes immediately.

While January 1 signifies the start of a new calendar year, actual change starts with you and your readiness to make the changes you want in your life.

Maybe ,instead of making big resolutions, why not make weekly goals and see what you can accomplish.

Here’s to a prosperous new year!