Every year, people obsess over their next New Year’s Resolution.
Doing this creates unnecessary pressures on choosing something amazing and life changing… Choosing something that will enhance our life whether it be by doing something good or cutting out a bad habit. We should all aspire for self-growth, but the reality is that we don’t NEED it to be a new year to make promises to ourselves. And why is it that people choose just one resolution? Why can’t I choose 8? Go big or go home I say!
If you do make a new year resolution, I think it makes the most sense to choose a resolution that best fits your life.
If you want to make a resolution over something physical but healthy for you, do so. If you want to choose something for your mental health, do it. There is no right or wrong resolution. You don’t even have to make a resolution! Don’t let yourself feel pressured to make fake promises to yourself. Promises matter, especially those you make to yourself. Choose something that is attainable for you but also gives you a bit of a challenge.
Life is hard enough without having to deal with breaking promises that you’ve made to yourself. Sometimes making a resolution to make it through another year is what is needed.
Not everyone’s New Year is bright and happy.
People have lost loved ones, lost jobs, gone through divorces, lost themselves within the hustle and bustle of life itself. Sometimes being alive is all the resolution needed in some people’s lives at the beginning of this new year.
Instead of giving into what society thinks people should do at the new year and the resolutions they make, I encourage everyone to do what’s best for you. Whether it be something physically, mentally, or survival mode, do what will be good for your soul. Maybe you want to lose weight, quit smoking, go to church more, help those less fortunate, remove toxic relationships from your life, read more self-help books, etc. The only restrictions we have are those ones that we implement on ourselves.
I rarely make New Year’s Resolutions, but I do make goals for myself for the upcoming year.
I also don’t constrict myself to making promises to myself just at the beginning of the year. I like to make goals for myself as I live my life. The person I am in January will most likely be different than the me in September. And quite honestly, it’s a lot of pressure to make resolutions, especially when they are unattainable, or they become a chore instead of something that you wanted to do for yourself.
