My Simple But Meaningful New Years Resolutions.

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It’s that time of year again when someone asks you about your new years’ resolutions and suddenly you feel yourself tumbling down that rabbit hole.

Get a job that you love, get out of debt, success, lose weight, gain weight, grow your hair, study more, read more, Spend less, treat yourself more, be more healthy, learn a new skill, there are just so many goals, dreams and necessities that will be neatly redesigned as new years’ resolutions/ annual goals.

If you have read my Introduction or Goals & Updates you will be aware of my goals and objectives, initially I was not going to add anymore but this morning, I decided that a few adjustments may be needed, not only as a way to keep me on my toes but also because things change, our needs and wants change all the time and after a year of COVID-19 – If some your wants and needs have not changed then you need to review the year again.

my new years' resolutions/Annual goals
/Objectives/Plans

Increase the health, thickness and length of my hair.

Attend hairdressers every 6 to 8 weeks
Treat hair with TLC

Reduce debt significantly aka Get the hell out of debt

Establish and maintain 3 streams of income
Reduce monthly outgoings by 10%
Use the envelope cash system

Increase my knowledge

Read more
Learn a profitable skill that I love

Be more productive

Record all appointments, expenses, plans, events etc.
Stick to budget
Schedule and review all plans

Be more healthy

Drink more water
Eat more Electric Foods
Take vitamins every single day

Creating your own new years' resolutions

It doesn’t sound like much commitment but, I have learned over the last few months that it is non-productive for me to pile on so many things, I eventually become resentful and then either blow the lot or it stresses me out. That’s not productive, I know my limits and it becomes non-productive.

You have probably noticed that some of them overlap, being more productive and sticking to my budget will obviously help reduce my debt. Attending the hairdressers every 6 to 8 weeks will rely heavily on me ‘Establish and maintain several streams of income’ and ‘Sticking to a budget’ and this hair growth well, I need to drink more water and eat better. So it all goes hand in hand hopefully this will make it easier for me to stick to and it becomes standard routine.

Let’s see how it goes, I will give you honest updates in my end of month goal updates.

Words of advice

Now I don’t know if I came across as negative or even lazy when I explained the reasons why I have chosen few and simple new years resolutions but, check out these statistics from FSU news –

On average, 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February.

Good habits, especially ones drastically different from typical lifestyles, are hard to get started and even harder to keep. Research shows that on average, it takes approximately 66 days for a habit to become automatic.

Causes of failure include not being specific enough, setting unreasonable goals and expectations, no accountability, and negative framing. For example, vaguely resolving to “exercise more” or “lose weight” doesn’t provide enough motivation throughout the year.

Melissa Ma – FSU news Writer