This is coming a month later because we're in February but I'm writing it anyway because its never too late.
How is 2017 going for you so far?
Have you been sticking to your New Years Resolutions?
Let me tell you about the three most common resolutions that people fail to keep lol!
Loosing weight / Keeping a healthy lifestyle
An article from the Guardian, on New Year’s Eve 2015 titled ‘How long do people keep their New Year resolutions?’ confirmed my point. ‘Getting healthier is a priority for many seeking to make a new year resolution’. Most people see the new year as a new beginning, therefore getting healthier or losing weight is part of that. Most women want to look good for their planned summer holidays, so that they can wear that bikini they’ve been dying to show off. Men equally want to show off their abs on the beach. My tip for making the best of your 2017 New Year resolutions when it comes to being healthier is to take things step by step rather than making drastic changes to your lifestyle because that doesn’t work as you find you can’t keep to them and end up going back to your old eating habits. My second tip for living a healthier lifestyle in 2017 is ditch the gym if you know you can’t stick to it and try to do exercises at home. YouTube has a lot of great home exercise videos. My top fave is Scola Dondo she’s a great Youtuber who gives fitness tips, and DIY healthy food tutorials. This way you save money and time.
Getting good grades
Everyone says ‘new year, new me’ every new year, especially students, because most students see a new year as a new beginning in terms of achieving higher grades than the previous years.
I think this year we shouldn’t make resolutions but rather set ourselves goals we want to achieve by the end of the year. A friend of mine said last year that ‘we should set ourselves goals, not dreams because with goals we can actually achieve them, but dreams to her means we can’t achieve them’. This quote is so wise and has stuck in my mind ever since she said it, because I realised it was true. When we dream of something we set ourselves up for failure because dreams are not real. So, in 2016 I tried to set myself resolutions that I could achieve and when people asked me what they were I called them goals. One of them was to lose weight which is a resolution I always have every year and give up on, but this time I wanted to keep to it. I managed to keep to it even though it was on and off, because at certain times of the year I realised I lost weight but then I’d have bad days which turned into bad weeks and bad months and then I gained all the weight back.
Quitting smoking and drinking
Quitting alcohol and smoking are also some of the most common New Year’s resolutions for everyone, not just university students. However, uni students consume a lot of alcohol and cigarettes and this is mainly due to peer pressure. A lot of students drink a lot of alcohol and smoke because of stress of assignments and exams. My tip for quitting alcohol is to do it bit by bit. If you used to drinking alcohol three days a week, cut that down to one a week and if your used to smoking 20 cigarettes a day, cut that down to 10 a day. Don’t do everything at once because you’ll end up craving it again. It’s all about your mind set. Most students are very determined people which means once you set yourself a goal you want to make sure you achieve it.
I hope I’ve shed a light on what I think about New Year’s resolutions, whilst also giving you facts about New Year’s resolutions to back up my thoughts. I also hope that my tips have helped you.
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