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More than a just a promise
By: Samantha Watson
This year will be different. This is your year, your opportunity to be your best you. Just forget about last year… no sense in bringing up the past. You’re older and wiser now. You’re motivated now. You’re a beast and you’re going to full out “win” 2016. We are all familiar with preNew Year’s pep talks and we all know what it’s like to be a grumpy cat when it comes to confronting ourselves and re-evaluating our lives. New Year’s resolutions are consistently the worst kept promises, but sometimes they are the motivation that changes lives. Why would you not keep a promise you made to yourself, all the while keeping promises to others? Don’t you matter more? Aren’t you who you are accountable to? Haven’t you a responsibility to yourself? Only you can give yourself what you want. A resolution is a way for you to promise yourself you’ll do what you want. A promise you’ll never break because you’ll just be “breaking” yourself. Be stubborn, be staunch, be unwavering with your promise because you owe it to yourself. Resolutions should never be about change; change insinuates a
negative present tense and thus a more promising future. Basing your new year off a negative self-image will ultimately leave you disappointed and defeated. You can’t convince yourself you can do it, all the while remembering how you couldn’t do it last year. You’ll eventually end up convincing yourself you’ll just do it next year. This is the cyclic nature of promises, promises, promises. Resolutions should be about empowerment. Try to build off of the person you were last year, imagining yourself adding to a vivacious collage of a person, not tearing off what you don’t like and starting from scratch. Vibrancy is the spice of life and with a pinch of hopefulness and dash of dedication, a “new you” will organically emerge from the ashes of 2015. Positive self-image, bravery and self-belief are the ticket to 2016.