DAY 76: On New Year Resolutions ( 77 Day Challenge )
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein ( A quote he never said)
The quote above is valid even though it is always wrongly attributed to Albert Einstein or Benjamin franklin
The contest in which I am sharing this quote with you is this.
Every year, On New Year's Eve, Millions of people around the world engage in a tradition of writing down "Resolutions" - New Year resolutions.
These could either be habits that we wish to quit or goals that we want to hit. I did this for a while but for the past two years I have stopped doing it and my life has been better.
A statistic shows that 80% of people who set new years resolutions give up by the second week of February.
In fact, if you google the term, there are over 24 million results on google telling you how to set them, keep track, and steps to do in accomplishing them.
So you start the year with things you must do. Lose weight, make more money, wake up earlier, give up certain bad habits, and everything in between.
Most of us don't even know why we set these new year resolutions other than because everyone else is doing them and so we are pressured to follow suit. No wonder the failure rate is so much.
While some of these resolutions are just goals and should be seen as such, I want to recommend you do something different this time around
Let your New Years Resolution for 2021 be this
NOTHING.
yes, you read right.
Don't set any new years resolutions at all.
Instead, you should aim to live in the moment- because that is when life happens, and when you live in the moment, that is when you can get things done.
Again I'd repeat this
Do nothing. Don't set any resolutions or goals.
Aim to live in the moment and be positive about it.
You've done the New year resolutions for so long with no results for a while and you can try something new and see if you get better results.
I hope this helps you as we step into a new year.
Jude C. Ifeanyi
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I am in complete agreement with you, Jude! I do New Day resolutions, instead. That is much easier for me to focus on and achieve!
Jeff
You my friend have a great way of seeing things in a better light.
New Day Resolution is Best.
Thanks For the tip
Hey Jude
Great to see ya! You are one day away from achieving your blogging goal, 76 down and 1 to go! Well done!
You've burst my bubble now, I quite fancy that Albert Einstein was the one who said those words :-)
Thanks for another great blog.
Blessings
Louise
Hey Louis
Awesome to hear from you.
Thanks, Thanks and Thanks for the encouragement.
I wish you a prosperous 2021.
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'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.' was apparently first said by a fictional character called Jane Fulton in a book by Rita Mae Brown, published in 1983. However, I am pretty sure I heard this quote before then during a Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP) course in 1980 or 1981. The mystery continues ... but it is a great quote.
I agree with your hypothesis Jude ... but for the following reasons ... goals (in my experience) work best when they are developed as a result of a true desire to achieve something... setting goals or resolutions just because it is a particular time of year makes very little sense to me.
Wishing everyone who reads this the very best for 2021.
Richard
Awesome breakdown of the quote Richard.
Thanks for that.
I agree with your reason that a burning desire to achieve something is better than waiting for a particular time of year.
Thanks Alot.
I wish you a splendid 2021