Realistic new Years Resolutions for a better Life
Making New Year's resolutions is traditional, and most of them are broken. But a good way to start off a new year is first to make a resolution that all resolutions will be renewed monthly. In that way, the original intention that necessitated the life style change, stopping a bad habit, being more neighborly, giving more to charity, going to church regularly, study more, be kinder to parents, stop nagging the children, become a better wife or husband, or invite the minister over for dinner more often, or whatever, will not be forgotten. It must have been a important consideration or it would never have been made.
How to assure success for this year: Keep the ideas alive! Begin planning for the future by looking back at all the things that went wrong with last year's resolutions and relating them to the hopes for the future. Don't make the mistake of listing wants instead of ways to make these wants possible. For instance, don't just say for this upcoming new year you will begin saving for your ten year old child's education. Instead list ways you can save for this important event.Henceforth stop splurging on toys and games that he tires of promptly. Instead take that money and purchase a bond that will mature at about the time he will be entering college.To show children how important an education is, henceforth be more helpful with their schoolwork. Show this by being interested in the day by day lessons being learned in school. This is important for children. If they see their parents taking an active interest in what they are learning, they will apply themselves even better to their studies.In order for them to appreciate the education that has been so carefully planned, make sure they know that a plan is being put into practice for this. That money is being saved to make sure their future will be bright. Get their advice on how this educational plan might work even better. When they know why they are denied a movie, a new bike, or when a less expensive vacation is taken and the money deposited into an education fund, it will be better excepted.Make talking to them about the different kind of colleges, what career choices are available but make it non-committal. After all, even with the best of planning, events happen that often alter original plans, but that should not get in the way of the plans being made. The difference in being interested but flexible from being interested and adamant, is light years away.New Year's resolutions are made to be broken. Were they not, the world would be in a sadder situation than it now finds itself in. Yet, the fact they get broken does not take away from the desire to start out life new each day. Yes, broken resolutions can be restarted at dawn each day. And even those that are broken at noon, can be restarted before nightfall, or even the first thing in the morning.There is nothing inherently wrong about desiring to change one's life style, to change bad habits into good habits. Sometimes resolutions actually work. So why put off those annoying little guilt feelings about not doing what you know you should be doing. As with saving for the education for children, do away with the guilt by taking that first step toward putting in place a good habit that will replace the bad one of procrastination.Do that with resolutions everyday. Don't play games and say, I will put that off until next year and then deal with it. Deal with it today. Get out of the jail of procrastination you've put yourself in and make every day a new day, as indeed it is. The only difference is reality is now. It cannot be put off until that mythical time when it can be logically broken. If something important is to be done, either deal with it or discard it.Resolve to stop cluttering up your mind with unresolved conflicts. If an idea is important enough to consider, it belong to now, not to a mythical New Year.
