About how long do you actually stick to your new years resolutions?
By FayeSLongo
@FayeSLongo (306)
United States
December 19, 2008 7:36pm CST
I've come to find that I'll start off the new year going strong, with an undeterred will to follow through on my resolutions but slowly that determination fades and within about four months I can't even remember what my resolutions were.
I'm sure that I am not the only person out there who has this problem. But I'm curious how long you stick to your resolutions and if you are actually able to how do you do it!?
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5 responses
@LaurenInLA (2270)
• United States
20 Dec 08
Usually just a couple of months but last year, I had some success. I made three resolutions and succeeded in two of them. That weight loss one that's on my list every year just keeps eluding me. I took a New Year's resolution class at the beginning of the year and I learned to make a resolution statement and then to make monthly and weekly goals to achieve my long range goal. That worked for me. It kept me focused and when I got weak, I read my resolution statement which included the reasons why I wanted to attain the goal.
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@FayeSLongo (306)
• United States
20 Dec 08
That is wonderful! It is such a good idea to have a way of checking in with yourself on ANY goals you may have - not just resolutions! Thanks for sharing and hopefully you'll have just as much success this year!
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@capirani (2756)
• United States
20 Dec 08
I don't make resolutions anymore. They just set a person up for feeling like they failed at something. It is just better to try to do your best everyday and not make your life more stressful at the new year because of some resolution that you know you won't keep anyway. Just live one day at a time trying to do what you know you need to do. If you do that, you don't need any new years resolutions. And always remember that each day is a clean slate that you can start over on. So whatever you did not accomplish the days before isn't held against you for the new day.
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@FayeSLongo (306)
• United States
20 Dec 08
This is actually something that I didn't think of. You could start a whole new discussion on this topic. I feel that it is important to have goals but I also agree that sometimes having resolutions can be a way of just setting yourself up to fail - and who wants to do that!
I think that goals are important to me because I'm kind of a procrastinator but I'm also gentle enough with myself not to get to caught up in all that. I don't beat myself up too bad if I don't meet one of those goals or resolutions. I leave lots of room for humor in my life. I guess that I feel resolutions can be helpful if you take them on with a lightened heart in a humorous spirit.
@windchimebooks (314)
• United States
22 Dec 08
Four months? You have me beat by a mile. I'll sometimes make a resolution and within about a month I've forgotten about it.
I think I'm on a different time clock or something than the rest of the world because come June or July sometimes August I'll think, "Oh, I'm going to try to do so and so" and from then until the rest of the year I'll end up being pretty good about sticking to whatever mid-year goal I've suddenly decided out of the blue that I need to set. The New Year's resolutions, though, always just go by the wayside, usually before Jan. is even over. I'm used to it by now, I don't even think about it anymore. In fact, now that I think about it, I don't recall the last definite New Year's resolution I actually made.
@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
21 Dec 15
@FayeSLongo I have a hard time following through on my resolutions. I decided to make short term goals instead. I have a better chance of accomplishing them.
