{"id":388,"date":"2016-01-22T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:42:50","slug":"new-years-desolations-er-resolutions-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Desolation’s, er Resolutions 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"new-years-resolutions-twentysomethings\"<\/a>\"i-broke-all-my-new-year-s-resolutions\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re part way into the first month of the New Year and it\u2019s that time to start looking at the variety of self-improvement resolutions we made just a couple of weeks ago which are slowly and inevitably becoming obsolete.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m referring to the \u201cstart exercise,\u201d \u201close weight,\u201d \u201ceat better,\u201d and \u201cget my finances in order,\u201d optimism which comes with the third glass of champagne at midnight January 1. You might as well down the whole bottle; because by the time the garbage collector picks up that bottle from your recycling bin \u2013 you\u2019ve broken them all!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Look, we\u2019re all in this together. I, myself, am a great believer not only in making resolutions, but getting ahead of the game by practicing breaking them during the year so I can effectively jump ship in January. Realistically, how many of us rise in the morning and start a week or a day out during the year saying, \u201cOK, today I\u2019m going to do this, or that?\u201d \u2013 pretty much everybody! And guess what, we break those positive habits very quickly. Think of it as sort of the pre-season for the Super Bowl of resolution breaking in January.<\/p>\n

We can blame the Romans and Babylonians<\/a><\/strong> for the concept of resolutions, at least that\u2019s what Wikipedia tells me (one resolution is to stop believing Wikipedia)\u2026promising their respective gods to be better people.<\/p>\n

This issue for us is really that we set unrealistic goals for ourselves and then find our way back into old habits. Also, we set too many goals \u2013 it\u2019s better to have a handful than a list of 10 that any sensible human can\u2019t hope to keep.<\/p>\n

\"NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While I\u2019m working on failing my personal \u201ceat better\u201d and \u201cno alcohol during the week\u201d resolutions this month\u2026I\u2019ve come up with several I’ve heard about and added to my list below. I think we can all adhere to these throughout 2016:<\/p>\n