2024 & those New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions have a rich history in the United Kingdom, dating back to ancient times. The tradition of making promises or setting goals at the start of a new year has deep cultural roots that have evolved over centuries.In medieval England, the new year was celebrated around the spring equinox in March. During this time, people would participate in a variety of customs, including making resolutions for the upcoming year. These resolutions often revolved around acts of kindness, self-improvement, or promises to lead a more virtuous life.
Do not Let New Year's Resolutions cause added Stress
2022 - New Year - New You. Is that going to be at the core of your January or will these new goals and objectives just add unnecessary pressure to you life?
Every year just before the clock strikes 12. we have that voice in our heads telling us we will make dramatic and bold changes to our lives - join the gym, stop drinking alcohol, give up cake, take the stairs, keep a journal and so the list goes on.
A You Gov poll at the end of 2020 showed that overall, 12% of Britons made New Year’s resolutions for 2020, although this is fewer than half of the 27% who said they were planning on doing so when we asked in December 2019 possibly as a resultofthe pandemic. Resolutions proved most popular among the young; nearly a quarter (24%) of those aged 18-24 made a resolution compared to just 6% of the 65+ age group. Of those who made resolutions, only a quarter kept all of them (26%), although half managed to keep some of them (48%). Around a quarter failed entirely (23%).
So why do so many people fail to meet their New Year goals? Often the resolutions are too onerous and overwhelming, and sometimes unrealistic. According to a 2009 study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, it takes 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit.
Preparedness - Staying Focused and Hopeful in 2021
Resilience - Relentless - Change - Optimism - Challenging - Adaptable - Unprecedented - Testing - Unexpected - Grateful - Unpredictable - Overwhelming - Weird - Surreal - Tumultuous - Sad - Revealing
Looking back at 2020 so may feelings and emotions come to the fore, some of the words describing how we felt and what we expereinced can be used to sum up a year that change everything and everyone.
However, looking back can only serve the purpose of ensuring we are able to move forward in a different way to the way we lived before the Pandemic, before we knew what Covid-19 actually meant.
As the New Year approaches people will start to think about resolutions and change but 2021 is the year of Hope. So what’s the best way to approach 2021.
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Understand and Reflect on what we have been through. We should never forget the challenges and obstacles that were beyond our control and yet we did our utmost to overcome them.
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Plan Plan Plan for a very different future. Life is not nor it ever will be the same, hence the Great Reset - Version 4.0 of the next phase of our lives.
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Be Optimistic The negativity has overtaken us all, Look forward to something fresh and new, with a twist.
365 Days to Fulfil those New Year's Resolutions
Today is the day to put down the cakes, slip on trainers and try to develop new habits. Or is it?
The 1st January 2020 is the first day of the rest of the year to fulfil all the promises that we intend to keep for ourselves. The diet, the dry January, learning a musical instrument , running a marathon - no, half-marathon - no, 5k, walking more and using the stairs less, becoming a vegan - no, vegetarian - no, pescatarian, learning another language, writing a novel - no, a poem, keeping a journal, saying “no” to chocolate and “yes” to fruit and veg, seeing more of Great Britain and it will be fun even in the rain, attending dance classes and learning how to throw pottery.