If you take part in any social media website, there's no way you have missed the hundreds of 'new year, new me' posts and memes. Whether it is someone boasting to start a totally new life style, someone swearing to lose 20 pounds, finding a new job or dumping that useless boyfriend of hers.. we've all heard it before and being the cynical, half empty cup - kind of person, it's easy to just laugh at all these New Year's resolutions and wait for the people to give up and carry on with their old habits.
Yes it is a major cliché to make resolutions and say 'This time it's going to be different!' every year when we get to the end of December, but what's the harm in it? If you know you're most likely not going to stick to your decisions or promises, you might want to keep quiet about it, rather than posting it to all of your Instagram followers, but then again, a little bit of peer pressure from your friends and family (and strangers, let's face it, our social media pages are full of them) might not be that bad! Compassionate comments, support or even admiration of you doing a positive change in your life is never a bad thing, or even the doubting comments that try to put you down can't be that bad - in fact they should push you to try a little harder!
The beginning of a new year is always a great point to try something new in your life, or to give up on something that might not be good for you. Also, after the food and drink binging over the Christmas period there's no better time to try and be a bit healthier than January.
When it comes to setting goals for you for the new year, try to remember to be realistic though, especially if your resolution is something you haven't tried before or if it is particularly hard to achieve. It is obviously good to be ambitious and set yourself good targets, but there's nothing more depressing that the fact that you just simply can't achieve your goal. Same thing that applies to lots of other things - baby steps are the way go.
I'm not massively keen on New Years resolutions or promises but I always try to find something to try in January, usually trying not to have any alcohol for the first month. It's been tough but I've succeeded in the past, so I'm trying it again. I've also read a few good benefits of cutting down dairy usage in your diet, and as I'm a devoted lover of Greek yoghurt and cheese, to the point that I pretty much live on them sometimes, I decided to try
and be dairy free for January too.
It creates a massive challenge for my breakfasts though, as I have a proper military style schedule in the mornings anyway and I tend to have a quick bowl of yoghurt with muesli and fruit or berries, or porridge but I have armed myself with loads of boiled eggs, avocados and rye bread! We shall see if this experiment makes any difference but the fact that Khloe Kardashian lost 18 kilos with cutting dairy off her diet and basically living at the gym are giving me hope! Not that I'm trying to lose 18 kgs nor do I have time to move my life to the gym, even the 2-3 times a week is a bit of a struggle some times, but let's see! On top of that I have a list of things I'm hoping to achieve this year and make changes in my life, but those are more of a long term goals. Right now my only goal is to survive through the first day, and first week, back to work after the holidays and try to get my sleep routine back to normal. Sleeping till 10-11 am and then taking a two hour nap in the afternoon, and then staying awake till 3 am is not the way to carry on. Alarm set for 6.30am tomorrow!
I'm also going to try to complain about life a little bit less, try to stress a bit less and try to stay more focused in things that are important and try not to waste time on people or things that don't really matter that much. I think those are all pretty good promises to anyone.
It creates a massive challenge for my breakfasts though, as I have a proper military style schedule in the mornings anyway and I tend to have a quick bowl of yoghurt with muesli and fruit or berries, or porridge but I have armed myself with loads of boiled eggs, avocados and rye bread! We shall see if this experiment makes any difference but the fact that Khloe Kardashian lost 18 kilos with cutting dairy off her diet and basically living at the gym are giving me hope! Not that I'm trying to lose 18 kgs nor do I have time to move my life to the gym, even the 2-3 times a week is a bit of a struggle some times, but let's see! On top of that I have a list of things I'm hoping to achieve this year and make changes in my life, but those are more of a long term goals. Right now my only goal is to survive through the first day, and first week, back to work after the holidays and try to get my sleep routine back to normal. Sleeping till 10-11 am and then taking a two hour nap in the afternoon, and then staying awake till 3 am is not the way to carry on. Alarm set for 6.30am tomorrow!
I'm also going to try to complain about life a little bit less, try to stress a bit less and try to stay more focused in things that are important and try not to waste time on people or things that don't really matter that much. I think those are all pretty good promises to anyone.
No matter what your promise for this year, or for this January is, the main point is to stay positive and focused! Happy thoughts and positive vibes all the way!
What's your goal for this year?
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