A New Year’s Resolution is just a goal wrapped in a different word. When one asks a friend what are your New Year’s Resolutions? Your friends will typically say: I want to lose weight, find love, get a new job, or take a trip. Aren’t these actually goals?
If you want to lose weight you usually have an amount of weight that your thinking about losing, a time frame that you want to have that weight gone and an event or moment that you want to unveil your hot self such as your wedding or your next doctor’s appointment. You find a gym, or check out some workout videos and get started. The first few weeks are great. It’s the weeks after that the euphoria is gone and become boring, overwhelming, and you ask yourself “why did I do this to myself?” That’s when you have to decide how hard you’re willing to work in order to achieve this goal? If you aren’t seeing results it’s easy to ask yourself what is the point? My answer is to keep on trying. I fail a lot. Then, I dust myself off and get started again. . My theory is sooner or later I will reach my goal. ABC News mentioned that 40% of people make a New Year’s Resolution. But, according to ABC News a third of those people don’t realize their resolution. Their experts also recommended not telling people about the goals that you’ve set for yourself. I hate to say this but I have to agree. I’ve found that when setting goals I really have to think about which goals I feel comfortable sharing. Unless I am talking to my mom or my blogging peeps who are amazingly supportive, sometimes the naysayers (who love me) can drown out my enthusiasm for my goal especially when dealing with weight loss or gain.
Love, sweet love. You resolve to meet someone to spend the rest of your life with. Meeting that person is the end result of a lot of steps. Making sure you’re looking good when you go out, joining organizations, and just letting your friends and family know that you’re trying to meet someone. You start going on some dates. You meet some nice frogs. Ok, a lot of nice frogs. Then, when you’re just done! You meet your prince. But, it didn’t happen overnight. For most of us it’s a process. Love is an example of a resolution with a completely different mindset and approach than what you would do to lose weight. Typically, in order to be successful at love you have to let people know that you’re trying to meet someone. Then you get some introductions and the next thing you know you’ve met someone new!
You have been at a job for awhile and feel like it’s time to make a change. Getting a new job is clearly a goal with a number of steps that one must take to get that result. You write a new resume, speak to colleagues/friends about being a reference for you. You start to submit resumes and write thank you notes. You begin to do first, second, and third interviews. You get rejected several times. But, finally you get the job.
A resolution according to the online dictionary is a decision to do or not do something. A goal is defined (online dictionary again) as an aim or an end. Isn’t your decision to do something an aim or end? So, when you say that you don’t make New Year’s Resolutions are you telling the truth? Don’t you have goals for yourself? Your life? Dreams that you dream? In keeping with this train of thought I will say that YES I do have New Year’s Resolutions. To lose weight, to travel, and to meet “The One.” I have already taken my first steps. Let’s see what happens.
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