New Years Resolutions, did you make any? Why? Have you ever kept them before? Have they ever changed your life? More than likely you made a few new years resolutions and it’s also more than likely you broke most of the ones you made, yesterday, on New Years day.
Do you feel guilt for planning on making a new start and then blowing it on the first day? Now remember, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Yes, I know you intended well when you decided to make your New Years resolutions but it’s not making them that causes problems. It’s not keeping them that causes the problems.
It’s depressing to think you are going to make a brand new start for the neginning of the new year and then discovering you don’t have what it takes to keep the resolutions you made. Not keeping them can make you feel bad. Not keeping them can make you feel like you failed. Not keeping them can make you feel a deep sense of guilt. It can also make you angry when you discover you don’t have enough will power to keep the resolutions you made.
If the fact you didn’t keep your resolutions bothers you enough it can even make you depressed and irritable. I’m sure that’s not what you wanted or expected but that’s what happens. I no longer makes New Years resoultions for all of the above reasons.
I could never seem to carry them out. Quitting smoking, quitting drinking, being a better person, being more helpful, lol, even carrying our the garbage on time, not being late for work, etc. None I ever made lasted more than a couple of days and it made me feel bad when I didn’t keep them. So bad sometimes that I’d get depressed and then go get drunk.
With all the hassles new years resolutions caused me I decided I’d never make another one so along about 1975 I made a new years resolution to never make another new years resolution. Lol, it’s the only one I’ve managed to keep. There are a couple of things I vowed never to do that I’ve kept but they weren’t new years resolutions.
Heh, I vowed never to enter the Mall of America in the Twin Cities, I vowed to never watch the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” and I vowed to never buy another thing that was made by Chrysler. I’ve kept all of them and I don’t expect to break them before I die. Lol, don’t expect to break them after I die either.
If there’s something about yourself ou want to change, change it now, don’t wait for new years to try to change it. That’s just setting yourself up for failure and bad feelings. When something about you bothers you just change it. Learn a different way to think. Learn a diffeent way to use your mind.
You see, it’s your mind that messes you up with your resolutions. Why not just learn a different and better way to think? Thinking positive will help you more than new years resolutions ever will. Go read the pages on that site and then you will never be disappointed by the new years resolutions you didn’t keep.