Many people begin the New Year with expectations of achieving their dreams, and even the impossible.

More often than not, New Year resolutions are made to be broken. You begin your year with great determination to carry out these resolutions, only to slow down; by the middle of the year the resolutions have been completely forgotten. When it is too late, you are reminded of the forgotten resolutions. You decide that next year will be different, but is it?

 

Why do you make these New Year resolutions?

Should you make them? Wouldn’t you be better off not making New Year’s resolutions at all?

Perhaps the answer lies in the reason for the resolutions. Are your resolutions for the New Year based on the things you didn’t accomplish the previous year? If so, are you wasting your time? On 31 December the current year ends and on 1 January the next year begins. It is a new and a different year. It is not a year to repeat the previous year’s mistakes; its purpose is not to dwell in the leftovers of the previous year.

It is a year with new beginnings, a journey stretching out ahead of you. It is not the path of the past.

 

What is a resolution?

The word resolution means you made a firm decision, in other words you have decided unquestionably and with certainty, to do something OR NOT to do something.

Why not look back at the previous year and decide not to make the same mistakes? That is a resolution in itself. Perhaps you should have a stop-doing-list for 2014 instead of a to-do list? What are the time wasters you have on your to-do list that would free-up your time for more important and relevant items? Perhaps that is the first resolution for the New Year to stop doing the unnecessary. Alternatively, delegate the tasks that are taking up time, tasks that could be done by somebody else. This will free-up your calendar automatically for the things you deem important.

 

What should your resolutions be based on?

Resolutions should be for the future, for the dreams and goals you want to accomplish, not the tasks you didn’t have time for the previous year. There is a difference.  What are you setting out to do this year?

It is time to transform your dreams into reality. Take hold of your dream, break it down into do-able tasks or goals and base your New Year resolutions on that. You now have a purpose, a mission to fulfil your dream.

Have a great 2014 where every step you take will bring you closer to fulfilling your dreams and accomplishing your New Year resolutions.

 

The Four Faces and their New Year Resolutions

The Four Faces were asked what their New Year Resolutions were.

Human: “Based on this article I would say my New Year resolution is to Stop Doing Time Wasters.”

 

Ox: “I agree with Human and will stop doing the unnecessary and Do Something New.”

Eagle: “I want to add to the list of resolutions to Journal and Write daily.”

 

Lion: ”The time I will have available from not wasting time, I want to Read More.”

 

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