Ho Ho Ho
Jingle Bells!! Jingle Bells!!
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh
With the fervour of Christmas Carols all around, there comes an excitement of framing a New Year resolution. It reminds me of my blissful school days when my classmates and I were all eager to share our New Year resolutions with each other.
Resolutions are firm decisions to attain or complete tasks in life. And, there is no better time than a New Year to make self promises and bring a positive change in one’s own life in the following year. A resolution can be subtracting a bad habit like quitting smoking, focusing on staying healthier by inculcating good eating habits and exercising, or attaining financial goals by targeting on possessing a new asset. The list is endless, varying from person to person.
Life is a journey with uneven crests and troughs. The path becomes smoother when planned with well framed resolutions to achieve lifetime goals. No one is perfect in this world but we all want to work towards perfection and attain long term goals. Devising a structured approach at the start of the new year not only gives direction to goals but also makes one visionary for future goals.
The benefits of resolutions can be categorized under three headings:
OBJECTIVE MOTIVE: Human beings are mortal beings with a short span of life and endless aspirations to fulfill. Setting targets keeps one focused and helps to achieve in greater magnitude. For instance, when one knows that in the coming year he/she has to own a house, the individual will start focusing on accumulating required funds to convert that dream into reality.
SUBJECTIVE MOTIVE: Framing resolutions is the best means to attain self-actualization. There is more clarity and precision with regards to one’s life goals. Yearly targets facilitate improving our own self by taking a pause in life and introspecting on our plans. It results in deep insight into one’s own being leading to self realization.
PHILOSPHICAL OBJECTIVE: New hopes are the fuel for positivity in life. It keeps the life moving. As the famous poet Alfred Lord Tennyson rightly quoted in his verse Ulysses, “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!”
In a nutshell, framing resolutions leads to reinventing oneself, re-evaluating one’s choices and moving forward to gain newer experiences by shedding negativity from life. It is a self-illuminating experience to add novel and positive qualities to oneself and replacing the older and negative traits. They are the pavement to self-enlightenment and self-awakening by retrospecting into the acts, drawbacks and achievements of the previous year.
