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SPEAKING OUT | The WORLD
What is your New Year’s
resolution?
Jani - Berlin
“To Be Happy”
Jamie - Randolph
“Do More As A Family”
Evalyn - Williamstown
“Enjoy Every Day”
Robert - Barre
“End Homelessness”
John - Craftsbury
“Get In Shape”
Dalia - Barre
“To Live Healthier Mentally”
Doug - Randolph Center
“I Don’t Make One”
Brandon - Barre
“Meet New People”
A New Year, a New You? It’s Possible with a Little Planning
By Katie Moritz
This year is going to be
the year: the year you
exercise more; the year
you spend more time with
family and friends; the year
you learn that new skill or
take up that new hobby.
2018 is going to be your
year.
Tell this to friends and
family, and it’s likely someone
will inform you that over
50% of New Year’s resolutions
fail. This is no surprise
when, according to a ComRes
poll, some of the most common
resolutions are exercise
more, eat healthy, learn something
new, stop smoking, and
spend more time with people
we care about.
These sound great, but
they’re in the abstract. What does exercising more mean?
What defines eating healthy? How can one spend more time
with friends and family if their life is already jam-packed with
daily obligations and commitments?
When New Year’s resolutions are vague, they leave no
room for celebrating the successes along the way. Which, let’s
be honest, is half the fun. For example, imagine someone
wants to exercise more but they live a busy life and, although
they resolved to the gym this year, they simply do not have the
time. A week or two or three in, and they may feel like they
have failed, and so, give up the notion of exercising altogether.
But what if, instead, you planned out how to tackle your
resolutions? Instead of planning to go to the gym, start small:
take the stairs at work, or park the car far away from your
destination? Even a fifteen-minute walk at the end of the day,
to clear the head, can make one feel more accomplished.
Therefore, to get results, it is important to come up with
New Year’s resolutions that will be realistically attainable.
Some important questions to consider when starting your
resolutions are whether they are specific, measurable, and
whether they will be exciting.
Say you want to keep in touch with friends. To make it
specific, you may want to choose which relationship you actually
want to be continue. Is it really worth your energy to
invest in relationships and people out of guilt? Or simply a
sense that you share a history?
Now, define what keeping in touch means for you. Does it
mean offering more of your daily energies? Helping people
with their kids, listening to their personal problems, buying
them birthday gifts? Does it mean writing emails or letters
every few months? How much time and focus do you want
and/or have to give?
Once you have more specific resolutions, how do you make
the, stick?
Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, writes in his
blog: “The key is to take advantage of the 3-step neurological
process that creates a habit. First, choose a cue, like leaving
your running shoes by the door, then pick a reward — say, a
piece of chocolate when you get home from the gym.
Eventually, when you see the shoes, your brain will start craving
the reward, which will make it easier to work out day after
day.”
Duhigg suggests trying this out for one week to see how it
goes. There may be some trial and error involved. Be forgiving
of yourself when you mess up. If something didn’t work
the way you wanted it to, go back to the drawing board and
come up with a new approach. Maybe instead of taking an
hour walk, you take the dog around the block. Maybe instead
of calling all your college friends every week, you send an
email to a couple of your closest friends once a month. If the
reward is not incentive enough, try a different one.
To start though, sometimes finding the right community
and the right resources make all the difference. Local libraries,
senior centers, and rec departments offer information,
classes, and even meeting spaces at little or no cost. With their
help, you may be surprised that you keep to your resolutions
and that you find new interests, friendships, and hobbies along
the way.
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