Ever since Pope Gregory decided to give us this calendar we all celebrate new year with a fervor for resolutions.
Few suggestions (including mine)
1. Reducing weight
2. Eating Healthy
3. Never to procrastinate
4. Kicking off a bad habit
5. Running everyday /exercise
6. Never to be angry
7. Meditate everyday
8. Practise guitar (or any instrument everyday)
9. Learn something new everyday
10. Write a book/a blog a day
We all know none of these resolutions will survive January. These will end up in new year resolution 2015 list.
What goes around come around.
There has been a lot of research on why we make these useless resolutions and steps to make them work.
Some of my friends have a resolution never to make a new year's resolution.
Some of my friends want to make tangible workable short term resolutions.
Your resolution may be different. But the process is the same.
You make a resolution. Work on it for a week and voila we see Santa claus.
Humans struggle with this useless effort of making a resolution and breaking it.
2 books come to my mind.
Power of habits - helps us understand that if we can anything for 21 days it becomes a habit.
So instead of resolutions for a year, we can pick 1 habit work on it for 21 days.Fail or pass - move on to the next
Willpower instinct - write a letter dated 1/1/2015 thanking your current self for a well done journey. Detail the obstacles encountered - a sick day and rainy day when you still exercised. Establishing connection between future and current self sounds crazy but it works.(Atleast according to the research and books)
So what was your new year's resolution? - Documenting your resolution and announcing to the world also helps to achieve it as there is peer pressure factor which helps you be more accountable.
What was your new year's resolution? Is it different from last year and will it be different next year?
Sivakumar Manikanteswaran
Few suggestions (including mine)
1. Reducing weight
2. Eating Healthy
3. Never to procrastinate
4. Kicking off a bad habit
5. Running everyday /exercise
6. Never to be angry
7. Meditate everyday
8. Practise guitar (or any instrument everyday)
9. Learn something new everyday
10. Write a book/a blog a day
We all know none of these resolutions will survive January. These will end up in new year resolution 2015 list.
What goes around come around.
There has been a lot of research on why we make these useless resolutions and steps to make them work.
Some of my friends have a resolution never to make a new year's resolution.
Some of my friends want to make tangible workable short term resolutions.
Your resolution may be different. But the process is the same.
You make a resolution. Work on it for a week and voila we see Santa claus.
Humans struggle with this useless effort of making a resolution and breaking it.
2 books come to my mind.
Power of habits - helps us understand that if we can anything for 21 days it becomes a habit.
So instead of resolutions for a year, we can pick 1 habit work on it for 21 days.Fail or pass - move on to the next
Willpower instinct - write a letter dated 1/1/2015 thanking your current self for a well done journey. Detail the obstacles encountered - a sick day and rainy day when you still exercised. Establishing connection between future and current self sounds crazy but it works.(Atleast according to the research and books)
So what was your new year's resolution? - Documenting your resolution and announcing to the world also helps to achieve it as there is peer pressure factor which helps you be more accountable.
What was your new year's resolution? Is it different from last year and will it be different next year?
Sivakumar Manikanteswaran
Happy New Year 2014 to my friend Siva.
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