1. Stop Smoking
You are so not alone! Each year, more and more people choose to quit smoking cigarettes especially on a New Year's eve but what you don't know is that if you have not stopped by now, it is not likely that your puny will-power will somehow change its' ways in 2011. Duh!
2. Quit Drinking Alcohol
Trying to pick the New Year's Eve as a significant date to quit drinking alcohol is just a total failure because almost every household in the world has cans and bottles of some alcoholic content to welcome the New Year. It's either you lock yourself in a room without any drinks at all or sleep on it. The thing is, when you successfully get out sober, you will miss the revelry and feel that at the beginning of the New Year, you suck!
Look... you need to get a grip of yourself... these 2 top ranked new year's resolutions are not gonna do you good. You just can't.
I personally tried and tried and tried but I always managed to get to renew myself after NYE revelry when I don't pick the New Year's Eve as the significant date to say "I'm gonna be better at the start of it"!
Be not one of the millions of people who are drawn to the ritualistic hope of achieving some mystical or magical outcome as if... perhaps... finally... we will be able to triumph over a bad habit of fear that has resisted our most sincere efforts in the years that have passed!
It has been a proven research over the years that gave the following conclusions...
- That about 80% of all New Year's Resolutions are broken by January 31. If that resolution had something to do with health and fitness (working out, losing weight, quitting smoking, etc), 90% will be history by January 15th!
- By the end of the year, less than 5% of us will have persevered with our resolutions intact. It's easy to see why so many people don't take this annual ritual serious to begin with!
New Year's Resolutions are so vexing for most of us. Regardless of what we say we want, or how badly we want it, or how sincere or determined we are, the "reality" for each of us is that... we expect to do the same things we've always done, with the hopeful chance of some improvement.
The trick to busting out of this resolutions cycle is to find a way to think outside our expectations, because if we don't do that, no amount of strategies or goal-setting is going to make much difference.
It isn't an overnight process and it won't happen on NYE. However, there are a lot of steps we have to take before we can get ourselves headed in the right direction.
You know what... maybe we are just wired that way when it comes to New Year's Resolutions. I'm sure though... that if some of us (like the less than 5% of us) actually triumph over these two vexing resolutions, it does feel good when we finally stop. My attitude towards these though... is just not to stress to much about it. Instead, I will go out and have total fun this New Year's Eve at Society Lounge... drinking and smoking like everyone else! So go have fun too! Quit thinking about quitting habits on this significant date!
I'll hit the gym and the pool the day after the New Year's eve hangover! Happy New Year to everyone!!! :))
These are great images from my Boracay 2010 New Year's Eve Countdown! I miss my friends from last year but I'm sure... I'll see them again ;))