NEW YEAR-NEW YOU?

Happy New Year !!

It's a great way to greet people as we come out of holiday season. What's funny is the fact that most of people get the 1st day of the new year off work. It's the right thing to do in theory, but the counterproductive thing to do in practice especially for those people who make new year's resolutions.

On the first day of the year we humbly submit and adamantly promise to start the new year off differently than we ended the immediate past year. Most vow to work harder, but on the new day we are resting. You can't rest and work hard at the same time. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a self-proclaimed workaholic or a killjoy by any stretch, but I am an analyst. Thus analyst ask questions.

At the beginning of every year, people make huge plans to work harder, work smarter, eat less, eat healthier, exercise more, attend church more, stop cursing, stop drinking, smoking, etc. The truth is 75% of people who make new year's resolutions don't make it past the first month. The reason? They bite off more than they can realistically chew. Regardless of what generation people grow up in the commonality amongst all people is that we want results right now. We get no support, we quit. We listen to criticism from family and friends, we quit. We get challenged, we quit. We see how much change actually has to take place in order to resolve the situation, we quit. The solution? Make a new day's resolution every single day. Be your own motivation. Challenge yourself to do something different every single day. Discipline yourself when you don't get things done. Commit to making yourself better by setting the bar realistically higher. Every day is never the same, so why allow yourself to be the same? The newness of the new year wears off after 15 days, but the newness of you never wears off. A happy new year is made by happy new days.