It’s that time of year again, when everyone makes their goals and resolutions for the year to come. January is the month of hope, the month where every student hopes to do better in class, where every person hopes to have a good upcoming year and in general where people just wish to be a better person than they were last year.
A New Year’s Resolution is a commitment that a person makes to one or more personal goals, projects or the reforming of a habit. What makes this resolution so special is that people will make them on New Year’s Eve itself in hopes for a new beginning.
As for the general public here are some very popular News Years Resolutions:
- Improve well-being: lose weight, exercise more, eat better, drink less alcohol, quit smoking, stop biting nails
- Improve finances: get out of debt, save money
- Improve career: get a better job
- Improve education: improve grades, get a better education, learn something new (such as a foreign language or music), study often
- Improve self: become more organized, reduce stress, be less grumpy, manage time, be more independent, perhaps watch less television, play less sitting-down video games
- Take a trip
- Volunteer to help others, practice life skills, use civic virtue, give to charity
If you have yet to make a resolution, maybe one of these will spark an idea in your head!
New Year’s Resolutions have been around for many years, but what people expected for themselves was different. In the 19th century, a typical teenage girl would focus on becoming less self-centered and become more helpful. Where as a 20th century teenage girl focuses more on body image, health, diet and desired possessions. As woman of the of this century, we should not focus to much on hoping for us to have a great year of beauty, but a year of difference. We should focus on how we may help others instead of helping ourselves. Make a resolution that will help others as a whole like volunteer work or maybe changing how you look at the world around you and those in it.
A resolution shouldn’t be taken extremely serious, but instead it should be seen as a push or motivation to help you to become a better you.
So don’t harp on how much weight you want to lose or when you are going to start your New Year’s diet, but instead focus on how to make a difference in someone’s life. How can you help them in any way?