NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS SUCK

 George was overweight and needed to lose some weight. The New Year approached and he made a resolution; “This New Year, I will join a gym.” He joined a gym, truthfully. He went to the gym every day. He’d go out and be offered cake, Ice-cream, fried chicken and many more yummy treats. He turned them all down. One day in February, it was a colleague’s birthday at the office. A red velvet cake was shared; George had a thing for red velvet. “A tiny slice won’t kill me.” He ate the cake happily. Days later, his alarm rang to tell him ‘gym time’. George shut
it off. “This is how God made me. I can’t come and kill myself. Let me sleep today, I’ll go tomorrow.” His attendance started dwindling. By April, he went no more. At the end of the year, he made the same resolution for the approaching New Year.
  Julie was a shopaholic. The New Year came and she made a New Year resolution; “This New Year, I will shop less and save more.” People were shocked she was keeping to it. Julie didn’t buy a thing for weeks. One day in March, she passed by a beautiful pair of shoes. She told herself she would just window-shop. She went in, admired it and asked how much it cost. The attendant told her, N100,000 (hundred thousand Naira). Julie tried the shoes on. She stood up to leave then paused, thinking to herself, “I haven’t bought anything in months. Just once won’t kill me. I will stop after this shoe.  Besides, I need this shoe; it would go well with everything in my wardrobe.” She paid for the shoes and stepped out the shop. She saw a purse in another shop that would go with the shoes; a dress that would go with the shoes and the purse; jewelry that would go with the shoes, the purse and the dress.
At the end of every year, you hear people making resolutions for the New Year.
Many start the year keeping their resolutions then let’s say by February, March they start falling back into old habits.
  The truth is The New Year has no power to make you do new things, change old habits and all that. When the euphoria of the New Year fades, so does your resolution.
  If you want to make changes or plans, let the resolution be because you truly want to, a personal conviction and decision by you and not one instigated by the thought of a New Year. Change comes from within and you don’t have to wait for a New Year to make one.
  So yeah, New Year resolutions suck because they’re half hearted on the spur resolutions that die in the first quarter of the New Year.
  Make resolutions not New Year resolutions. Happy New Year!

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