New years resolutions are addictive

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Introduction

The year is coming to an end and although this means that life is going by extremely fast, this bittersweet moment for many people, including myself, represents a fresh start; a new beginning. And because it’s a new year that means everyone is setting their new years resolutions. Honestly, I think New years resolutions are addictive. In this blog I mainly want to talk about my outlook on new years resolutions and the way that we approach them.

I don’t know about you but towards the end of every year I tend to get a bit lazy and all my good habits go flying out the window. Maybe we use new years resolutions as an excuse to indulge in a few (or in my case, many) bad habits. The idea that ‘next year I will do better’ providing some solace.

Every year I set a new years resolution and every year I struggle to follow through with it. And I don’t stop there, because the year after that I go straight onto setting new resolutions, despite my previous failures. Further emphasizing the addictive nature of new years resolutions.

The pros of new years resolutions

Personally, I don’t see anything bad with setting new years resolutions. There are in fact many positives. For one thing, you may actually carry out your new years resolutions, in which case congratulations, you’d be part of the small amount of people who do. Another thing is that new years resolutions allow you to reflect on the past year and see where you could have improved and do and implement new things to make the new year amazing. And, new years resolutions allow people to set goals and strive towards something that is essentially beneficial to them.

Maybe they’re not the problem

In fact, maybe new years resolutions aren’t the problem but the way I approach them is. For example, last year I had a new years resolution to drink 2 litres of water everyday. Now, for me this was an overly ambitious goal seeing as my current liquid uptake consist mainly of tea and hot chocolate.

Maybe if we set more realistic resolutions, it would be easier to stick to them. Maybe I should have started my new year with a gradual increase in my water uptake. But yet again, I think it was the excitement of ‘new year, new me’, to wake up the next day (on the 1st of January) and be an entirely new person.

I also think that another contributing factor to why new years resolutions don’t quite go to plan is because the amount of pressure we put on ourselves to follow through with them. There is just so much pressure to make the new year perfect. To rid ourselves of all of our bad habits. But realistically, there will be times when the new years resolutions wont always go to plan, but try not to lose motivation or hope, just keep trying again.

The end…

My optimistic self would be lying if I said that I wasn’t going to set new years resolutions this year. Quite frankly, I think they’re quite fun and a little addicting.

And I know that the fun eventually wears down when your halfway through the year and have already forgotten what your new years resolution was. But there is no harm in trying to incorporate new and beneficial things into your life and what better time to start them then at the beginning of the year.

I, being a naturally nosy person, would love to hear the new years resolutions you are setting this year, or have set.

I hope that everyone has an amazing new year!

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