Let me start in a cliched manner here with some further cliched resolutions:
“ I will lose weight in 2018 ( LOL)
“ I will get good grades in 2018” (Hahaha)
“ I will organise myself and get more disciplined” (ROFL)
I feel these resolutions have sufficiently established where my article is headed. Most of these resolutions are highly ambiguous or vague: the rationalisation behind which is to provide people with scope for slight deviations in between without killing them with guilt. Unfortunately, such resolutions fail to serve their purpose and end up being empty unfulfilled promises. You may also end up with low motivation to actually go about accomplishing what you want.
In contrast to the ambiguous type of resolutions are the other type of resolutions : the absolutely specific ones. We have all made these resolutions at one point or another : whether promising ourselves a 98% in the boards or promising a level of money to be accumulated at the end of the year. These resolutions might just work, but it depends to a huge level on your determination and how badly you want to accomplish them. While quantifying your resolutions gives you a finite goal and helps you find out a proper way to accomplish them, too rigid a resolution may break your will to carry it out.
So this year, if you have any resolutions, how about coming to a truce between these two extremes?
In order to do so, firstly, you must have a passion for a goal that you set for yourself, a burning desire or a mad inspiration to accomplish it. Make your broad plan, write it and paste it somewhere in your room. Yes, I can see eyes rolling as I write this, but I am writing this after self experimentation and it works! This serves as a reminder whenever you feel demotivated and want to quit on it.
Secondly, make tiny quantifiable goals to achieve these larger ones; tiny baby steps which may involve inculcating a small habit or changing an existing habit, like starting the morning with warm water instead of coffee, or studying for at least half an hour in the evening. These habits once developed will help you inch towards the bigger ones you wish to accomplish.
Thirdly, and most importantly, be determined to achieve the same. Remember that there are people in the world who have kept new years’ resolutions for more than 5 years, and severe ones too like de-addiction and the like. So with the right determination, achieving a resolution isn’t impossible as memes and our impatient millennial generation may portray.
But one thing to remember: do not impose a resolution on yourself. Keep new year’s resolutions only if you really have something you want to achieve, and not because it is a new years’ fad. Witness the year play out, ride the waves with no agenda in mind and discover yourself and what you want from life.
So,here’s to a very merry and successful happy new year!
-Nivvedhitha Shankar
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