Resolution or Reality? How to Tackle the New Year With Gusto
Did you make any New Year resolutions for 2013? Perhaps a more fitting question should be, did you make any that you think you are actually going to stick to?
We all know about people joining the gym only to write off the monthly payment for the rest of the year while never going, or those who pack in smoking but keep 20 Marlboro in their drawer at home because ‘they know they’ll fail.’
News reports and editorial features over the New Year holiday spoke at length about the resolutions many of us made this year. We looked at why some of them just didn’t stack up, and what people should really be worried about achieving this year.
Read More
According to Sky News in the UK, the number one resolution made globally is to read more books.
Given how successful New Year’s resolutions tend to be – 80% of them are broken – it is unlikely that struggling booksellers around the world will be hanging out the bunting ready for floods of customers to arrive.
Perhaps reading is just another vehicle that will ultimately become an excuse for not going to the gym. ‘I am too busy reading’ could well become the new ‘I was watching television.’
Buy a Tablet
Sky News also listed this at number seven. Clearly we mean the technological product, the world is not about to earn a mass addiction to Anadin Extra.
While this seems to be a strange resolution, one can only assume it is linked to people saving money to buy what is, for most people, a luxury product.
Given the popularity of digital books and the way the likes of Amazon and iTunes market them, we can only presume that people who said this weren’t the ones pledging to read more books, unless they meant on a mobile device.
Again, another reason not to do the difficult stuff, like get fit!
Spending Time
Is spending time with people a resolution or just something that people say when they have had too much to drink over the festive period, and have decided in their inebriated state that their annoying cousin isn’t too bad, after all?
Almost everyone will say they are going to do this, but the primary focus should be on spending time with children. Kids can learn so much even from just playing with their toys with parents for an hour, and the interaction and engagement will help them develop skills that will stay with them forever.
Focus on the things that matter in 2013. Reading a book or buying a tablet might seem big things to you, but spending time with others, especially children, should be the definite main focus of your year ahead.
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