New years resolutions...really?

Well a very Merry Christmas to each and every one of you, and very soon we will start the year over in 2016 (making me feel very old indeed).

So, rightly so, it's the New Years Resolution issue, where I ask you... WHY? WHY are you making resolutions to start on the 1st January?

If you want to change your life so much, why are you waiting for a completely insignificant date to determine when you start this life change, and notoriously, give up when you fail to stick to it for more than a few weeks.

If you want to change your life, make sure you are ready. Don't look at a calendar and decide to be ready on the 1st January. Decide when you want to change your life. If you want to lose weight, but actually all your clothes fit, and you have a lot of fun eating out with your friends and you're not prepared to change that yet, then you're NOT READY TO GO ON A DIET. Maybe you just want to be more aware of what you're eating when you're not out socialising. That's not a diet, that's being sensible.

Maybe you want to join the gym. Why haven't you done this already? Do you hate going to the gym? How is January 1st going to change your feelings about gyms? Think of an alternative to the gym and when you're ready, start doing it.

Go out and find a wife? Is she in hiding until the 1st January? If you accidentally meet her on the 29th December, can you not pursue her?

Stop spending money? Are you going to spend every single penny you have or don't have in the week before New Years day, just so you can draw a line under it and stop on 1st January? How about NOT shopping in the Boxing day sales and looking at your spending as something to work on now, and not on a specific date. It's all your money being wasted now, whilst you wait for that insignificant date to base yourself on.

January 1st is a date. It might be a good date to start monitoring a list, a budget or something like that, and a great date if it's your birthday, but it's not a date to determine you changing all your thoughts and feelings about things you've not done for the past year!  That has to come from your heart and your head.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy, prosperous new year. And if you don't think it's 100% one of those, then give me a call!
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