By SUSANNA CONINE-NAKANO – Web Writer
At the beginning of ever year, we make resolutions for the upcoming year, most of them we will never keep. But year after year continue to make promises to ourselves that we will be better. If we know that our resolutions are going to fail, why do we keep on making them? I think resolutions are a good idea but a lot of people, myself included, take the wrong approach to making them.
If we make more realistic and specific resolutions then we might actually do them. Like many people, at the beginning of the year, I tell myself I am going to exercise more. I say this but in the back of my mind, I know I am just kidding myself. If I told myself that I’m going to walk my dog every night for 15 minutes or so, then I am more likely to actually follow through with my resolution because it is far more realistic and specific.
We also have to remind ourselves of our resolutions. I’ll remember my resolution for two weeks and then school and extracurriculars come along and I quickly forget about them. This year I’m going to put my resolution in my reminders on my phone so I will constantly see it and feel to guilty not to follow through.
Resolutions just have to do with willpower and I think if we take them more seriously, we will be able to accomplish them.
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