By Andrea Pavee
Happy 2024!
December slipped by in a blur with the Christmas preparations, get togethers, parties and holidays to boot! But, it was a fun time with family and friends, and now that the New Year has begun, it is time to start it with a bang!
Along with the dawn of a New Year comes its bag of resolutions.
Generally, resolutions which were thought of carefully, planned for in minute detail, and executed with flourish bang start at the dawn of a new year, fizzles out by the time the first week comes about and may be but a whisper of a pipe dream by the time January ends. What resolutions!
I, for one, am guilty as charged.
This time round, I decided to ramp up my resolutions, with the hope they may last a little longer than January! I did a little research and here's what I thought to share.
Write It Down
Human beings being wired the way they are, writing down resolutions are the first step to committing to them. Writing it down changes the wispiness of the resolution of the mind into the concrete resolution of the hand on the page.
Death Is In The Details
To put to sleep airy fairy resolutions, details matter.
Make resolutions specific and with goals in mind.
If you would like to learn how to cook, then the resolution could be, "cook more". But your goals would be to learn how to cook, to commit to cooking a certain amount of times each week and to work out a challenge to cook something special for the next big festival – the Lunar New Year.
Write that down for without goals and challenges, resolutions may fail to launch.
Baby Steps All The Way
Resolutions, goals and challenges should be practical, workable and something you are passionate about.
At this time in my life, I would not commit to a woodworking project as I do not have the passion for it; but I have resolved to knit a beanie this year to upskill my knitting hobby.
The Early Bird…
I started working on my resolutions at the end of November. With heaps of time to the beginning of a new year, you have breathing space to figure out resolutions in peace.
While time is always the essence, resolutions are best lived in a calm way, remembering that we can resolve to change in a gradually. Give yourself some breathing space. Nothing is worse than completing resolutions with an unhappy demeanour and a sad face.
Why am I bringing up making resolutions in middle of January?
Living in a multicultural society, there is always a new year around the corner. If your resolutions have failed or tottering on the brink, the Year of the Dragon is our coming attraction.
Onward resolutions and a Happy 2024 to one and all!
Posted by Chayo, HomSkil Editor 1, 12 January 2024
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