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There’s a reason we don’t keep our resolutions and we end the year with a shameful list of incomplete good intentions. Resolutions, on the whole, are worthy and rather dull. We all know we should drink less, exercise more and a multitude of other actions to improve our lives and ourselves. There are two problems with this: resolutions aren’t very interesting and if we wanted to drink less we would already.
This new year, ditch the resolutions and you will leave this year feeling fulfilled, empowered and maybe just a little bit smug.
Look at your life and think about what you what in it, not what you want to banish from it.
Instead of resolutions, make promises to yourself – they don’t even have to be ones you can complete within a year. Always wanted to visit the Great Wall Of China? Start planning for it. Get brochures, open a savings account and talk about it as if you really are going there. Make it happen. Sure, it might happen two years down the line but the planning starts now.
If you feel there should be some virtue in your promises, find a way. Smoke, drink or eat too much? Cut down a little and use the money to add to your China savings account.
Do you wish you could read more, but never find the time? Make a pledge to yourself and…
