History
of New Year's Resolutions 2010
Many of us make resolutions every year but
we are unaware of the beginning.
The tradition of the New Year's Resolutions goes all the way
back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was
placed at the head of the calendar. With two faces, Janus could look
back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became the
ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans looked for
forgiveness from their enemies and also exchanged gifts before the
beginning of each year.
The Romans named the first month of the year after Janus, the
god of beginnings and the guardian of doors and entrances. He was
always depicted with two faces, one on the front of his head and one
on the back. Thus he could look backward and forward at the same
time. At midnight on December 31, the Romans imagined Janus looking
back at the old year and forward to the new.
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Favourite New Year's Resolutions:
Resolution means commitment to Change. Do we look at it that way? Or
is it just a case of what I want or desire – it becomes a temporary
change.
Majority of resolutions die before the next month (Feb)
arrives.
How many do you feel you have listed previously?
Which ones did you succeed in meeting your needs?
List your last five
years – resolutions and check your success rate?
Most
Favourite Resolutions:
1. Spend More Time with Family, Children & Friends
2. Become FIT through FITNESS Programme/ Exercises/ Gym
3. Give up Smoking or Chewing Tobacco
4. Stop Drinking (Alcohol)
5. Pay my debts off - specially Mortgage/ Bank Loan/ Credit Cards
6. Get up Early in the morning to be at work on time
7. Watch LESS TV
8. Learn NEW Skills to better myself
9. Spend more time for myself – to relax
10. Get Organised to manage things better
11. Help poor people through Social Work
12. Develop better habits for Going GREEN
So it is time to reflect on the changes we want (or need
to make
and resolve to ensure that you will follow through for at least for
one month. |
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New Year's resolutions have acquired some sort of a bad reputation
as every year they get broken.
# Why should we bother if making them almost invariably leads to
breaking them?
# So why do we really bother knowing
this?
Therefore 3 important questions you need to
keep asking yourself to help you achieve.
1. Why Make a Resolution?
One always desires change. Desire is a dream and
determination is needed to drive you to turn it into a reality. So
please do ask why one wants to make this resolution. Reasons are
important and will help you to stay focused on your set goal.
When the struggle to keep the resolution becomes a challenge, one
needs to remember why one made this promise in the first place.The
reason is that one wants to see oneself in a different place at the
end of the year (and beyond!) than one was at the beginning.
2. How to Keep this Resolution?
“Aiming to be what you're not is a waste of time.”
Resolving to become a marathon runner when one has never even jogged
around the block is more than likely doomed to failure. Keep your
goals realistic, small and achievable.
To reduce fat, for instance, resolve to do so 1kg at a time. Write
down a list of healthy foods to enjoy eating according to a required
caloric intake. Also list a range of sensible and fun exercises:
from walking instead of driving, to swimming, dancing or ice
skating.
Concentrate on the positive outcomes, not just in terms of lower
weight, but a rise in energy, glowing skin, and well-functioning
organs and muscles. Don't focus on what is impossible but on what
can now be accomplished that one couldn't before.
3. What If the Resolution is Broken?
New Year's resolutions are often challenging to keep.
Despite everyone's best intentions, we all know what tends to happen
next. We give up on our resolutions (usually sometime in February)
and give up on changing ourselves until the following year. So
please aim to push yourself to stretch it till end of Feb.10 and you
will begin to see some benefit of your resolution.
Dont give up now – just aim for one more month and then one more
month and so on. You should and keep a log of benefits or changes to
help you stay positive in achieving your goal.
You need to have a plan for any setbacks. Stuffing yourself suddenly
with chocolate cake? Create solutions beforehand to counter this
behaviour e.g. jump back on that treadmill, eat less dinner or do 10
situps.
Find a way of stopping the
behavior that's undermining your resolution. Don't blame or feel
guilty. Just become positive and return to the plan to keep your
resolution on track. The end result is important in making a
resolution, but the process is just as essential.
Though people's resolution goals and intentions are sound, they get
into trouble keeping new year's resolutions
because they don't adequately plan
for how they will accomplish their self-improvement goals.
In the absence self-change plan, most tend to fail. The reason
normally is that it is difficult for people to change their
habits. |
Habits:
People are creatures of habit.
Habits are ingrained behaviour patterns that people repeat over and
over. Particular habits form because people find repeating certain
behaviours again and again (like eating food, or sitting on the sofa
watching television, or having a drink or a smoke) to be pleasing
and conforming. Habits give a sense of comfort and pleasure.
The sheer frequency of repetition of these habits makes
accomplishing them second nature; very little thought or energy
needs to be expended in order to engage in ingrained habits. Focus
in developing ‘Good Habits’.
Resolutions are really path for ‘Breaking your
BAD Habits’. So focus on the benefits each month and keep
extending your deadline by each month and eventually it will become
a CHANGE FOREVER or HABIT - your desired goal for success -
whether it’s for health, wealth, career or whatever....
Be Disciplined - Sticking with
the optimal long-term strategy may not be the most exciting
investing choice. However, your chances of success increase if you
stay the course without letting your emotions, or "false friends",
get the upper hand
The more personally motivated
you are to meet your task, the better are your chances of sticking
with your self-help project until you've achieved results.
Begin by defining your destination, and then plan your investment
journey accordingly. What you achieve as an investor will depend on
your goals, but sticking to these seven simple steps will help keep
you on the right path.
Bon voyage to 2010! |
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