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New Year Resolution 📝



This resolution of a thing sef, it's always somehow. Many of us pledge to do some things or even vow to stop some things at the beginning of a year but eventually we get incapacitated.


How numerous resolution get discarded by February baffles me alot sha.


Another worst thing about this is that some people even forget they made a resolution as regards a particular thing. They remember at the close of the year and promise themselves they would turn it over to the incoming year and the cycle goes on and on.


Why do we find it hard to stick by our resolutions?


According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, resolution may mean :

A strong will, determination.

A statement of intent, a vow.


Some people, after so many failed resolutions have given up, they want to go with the flow of ''anything goes.''


The idea isn't that bad, it is however good when we map out how we want the new year to be. Whether to inculcate new things or thrash stuff that ain't ideal.


Do you know why resolution becomes difficult? We make it unrealistic. We simply just decide ''I won't drink again'' or ''I will read 10 books in a month'' or ''I will expand my network'' or this of that.


Gosh! These and other resolutions are too gigantic. To make your resolutions fruitful and achievable, start little by little.


When I read the book 'Power of Less' by Leo Babauta, I understood the concept of SIMPLICITY.



Resolution isn't just making enormous lists on what to do and what not to do, it's being specific.


To enhance a productive yearly resolution, it has to start from daily resolutions. If you ask a six year old child to read 1 to 10 for you and then he says 1, 3, 10. Would you be satisfied? No. He's meant to say the numbers one after the other till he gets to 10.


That's how resolution is, you simplify your resolution. You start from the easiest and then you go deeper till it becomes a part of you.


For someone that wants to shed weight, it would sound so funny to me if you tell me you want to start having a meal per day and walk 20kilometres a day. It's not realistic. Giving up would be so convenient.


Like the book instance I gave earlier, you can't say you want to read 10books in a month for a start. Even if you were able to read the books, you may just find out you read it for reading sake because you wanted to meet a deadline.


Permit me to use the cliché 'Rome wasn't built in a day' The best writers and readers in the world today didn't start off from reading 100 books in a month. They started reading and it became part of them. Now, they can't stop it.


Simplify your resolution so it won't scare you away. Choose the essentials and focus.


Don't make the year so clumsy. If it's only three things you want to work on, fine. Don't list 100 things which you wouldn't be able to do.


My dear, start small o. Simplify your resolution. Don't forget, yearly resolution is a daily resolution. You'll continue next year from where you stopped this year. 


You know, resolution is aimed at making you better, it's not what you do in a year and stop. Make it continuous. If you succeeded in reading 20 books a year, it could be 40 the next year and that's how it goes.


Do you have resolution (s)?

Would you mind sharing your 2021 resolution with me?


Happy new year FAM❤

Virtual hugsss🤗🤗🤗



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