Do you faithfully keep to your new year resolutions?

Many people have before the new year day made a list of things they would want to drop as they enter the new year why others have also listed out things they want to start doing in order to solve their personal issues and wants.  We have practically made it as a point of duty or would I say a yearly routine after thanking God and celebrating the new year we move Inside our rooms and houses and begin to discuss with our loved q ones, families and friends about our new year resolutions, some will even keep it as a secret to themselves alone never to discuss it with anybody about what they want to drop or take as either character, habit or their relationship with their fellow human beings as the case may be.

Before I continue with my article, I want to throw a little light on the concept of new year resolutions by some individuals.

According to  Wikipedia concept, it tries to explain new year resolutions as a tradition, most common in the Western World but also found in the Eastern World, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their life at the start of a new year. Also according to Meriam-webster definition, it defines new year resolutions as a promise to do something differently in the new year.

Having seen some of these explanations about what new year resolutions could mean, my questions are; how often do we keep these promises made at every first day of every new year we are opportune to witness? Do we really just say these promises just to make others feel  good about us, or to satisfy our consciences or do we just feel it's a routine and normal thing to say every first day of a new year and after that we go back to our normal way of life?

Let me not take your mind off from the point I want us to derive from in this article with the questions I am putting to you. Yes I have come to realise that often times we make promise of what we want to stop doing and the ones we want to start doing in our lives as a new year resolutions at every first day of a new year,  but after a little time we fail to keep to those promises we made, we even forget that we had such discussions with friends and people we care about and as time goes on we go back to those things that we said we will not do. I have asked myself this question countless times of what use is it to keep making new year resolutions every first day of a new year when you know you can't fulfil the promises?

If I am asked to drop my opinion about this new year resolutions issue, I would suggest that people should just do their best to live their life and try to do the ones they can do before the year runs down without coming out to promise the things they know they can't fulfill before the year runs down. It's not an easy thing to keep to promises whether the ones you made to yourself or to other people in life . The worst of it all is actually that moment when you have made promises of the things like character, habits and lifestyle you want to stop living and within a short while after that first day, temptations and trials will set in just to shake you and remove your mind so you can not fulfil the promises and before you know what's going on, you have already failed.

Being rich and achieving all you want, goals and aspirations before the year runs down to end  does not necessarily be attributed to the new year resolutions you made on that first day of the each year. Some who made resolutions were not able to fulfil the promises they made while some persons who never had time to start having a new year resolutions ended their year in success and dropped some of the things they never wanted to be seen with without even making any promises to themselves or to other persons.

The success of achieving anything in life starts from the mindset of being positive, being focused on the goals you are set to achieve, working hard and making sure that you actualise that goal before the end of the year. These are the tools one need to survive and make progress in life with. If we can learn to say less of what we want to do, achieve in life or character we want to drop but allow our achievements and our good character speak good about us it will surely make a great difference rather than making promises and at end of the day you will not be able to fulfil them all.

In conclusion, as we all are pushing forward to see how this year 2022 will favour us all, let's always bear in mind that to succeed this year is solely depended on the type of effort, energy and commitment you will put inorder to achieve success.

I am wishing all of us a happy New year and thank you for reading my article 🙏 Rafd9828.