New Year’s Resolutions

I feel the New Year should mark a new beginning brought in with those you hope to keep around in upcoming years like family and friends, coworkers and etc. This should be a time to collectively reflect on moments of the past …both good and bad. Then assess what you need to learn or practice in your upcoming year to improve on yourself both emotionally and physically. New Year’s Eve is an opportunity to plan your upcoming 12 month and to design a plan that will better you. These plans should be filled with realistic goals and milestones along your route to your own personal success. You should write down what you need to do differently, that you did wrong in your current or past years, then note things that you have successfully accomplished and hope to maintain or repeat in your upcoming year.  I believe that a successful plan requires planning, so in order for your goals to be reached you should setup quarterly goals that fit into categories important to you like relationships, education, physical, spiritual and etc. Be sure to not only note what you want to achieve by how you plan to achieve it and you should be able to achieve all your resolutions.

The reality though is that a lot of us spend these times getting drunk and surrounded by strangers. Beginning our New Year’s hung over and in bed or adjacent to toilets and doubled over in agony.  I know because I have been there and I tell you… NEVER AGAIN! I remember the ball dropping then being persuaded to down two more shots of patron, though I knew I was approaching my limit, and then the rest becomes a blur to me. Needless to say, this has been the most chaotic year in my life, which has taught me an important lesson about maintaining tradition and environment on New Year’s Eve to ensure my success and peace in my upcoming year.