New Year, New Beginnings, Same Results?
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So yet again, we have somehow stumbled into a New Year. Sure, we’re a little battered and bruised from 2016 but we’ve gotten through to the light at the end of the tunnel. That light is another new year and with it, it brings the renewed promise of change. Change that doesn’t usually stick, but it’s always nice to be reminded that we have the ability to change even if it’s unlikely to last.
That light is another new year and with it, it brings the renewed promise of change. Change that doesn’t usually stick, but it’s always nice to be reminded that we have the ability to change even if it’s unlikely to last.
That light is another new year and with it, it brings the renewed promise of change. Change that doesn’t usually stick, but it’s always nice to be reminded that we have the ability to change even if it’s unlikely to last.
There is a whole misconception when it comes to the resolutions we make and that is to completely reinvent ourselves. We say we’ll go from a couch potato to a seven days a week gym bunny overnight; or we’ll drop half our body weight; or we will travel all around the world this year. We say these to feel better about ourselves but then we get into a winter slump when we haven’t managed to achieve our resolutions, providing we even remember them past February.
In the past, I have written a long list of goal I want to achieve throughout the year and for the most part, I have failed every single time. Until I sat down to write this blog post and looked at the post I wrote last year on my now defunct other blog, I had forgotten what my goals were. I’d only managed one of the five goals I had planned, I completed my novel which is referred to in my resolutions for this years as AFFG. I don’t sleep any better, for the last five months of the year I wrote very little. My knee has started playing up again making moving more painful than it’s worth, and I haven’t even looked at my NaNoWriMo story in months and we’re talking about eight months. Improving my sleep is going to be a pipedream when you have a chronic illness.
So after much thought, I have decided that instead of making the big resolutions that we have become accustomed to, I will be making a shorter more attainable goal. By breaking down our goals into smaller steps, they become achievable and easier to fulfil. As we stumble into the New Year, I will be writing out my small, hopefully achievable goals.
This year, these are my New Year’s Resolutions. Let’s hope I somehow manage to stick to them.
- · Lose a stone.
- · Finish edits of AFFG.
- · Sell AFFG.
- · Rewrite Lost, Not Found.
- · Walk without a stick.
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