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Samok na paglaong na magbag-o kaw. Himua nan hilom da.
There something NOT right about new year’s
resolutions. Most of them are purely forgotten on the third day of January.
Chances are, you will be back with what you usually do. Change for the better
is a decision, not just lip service.
Kaitlin Woolley
from Cornell University and Ayelet Fishbach from the University of Chicago have
just published some new research investigating New Year Resolutions, and found
55.2% of resolutions were health related (exercise: 31.3%, eat healthy: 10.4%,
have healthier habits: 13.5%), 34.4% were work related (save: 20.8%, get out of
debt: 12.5%, learn something: 0%, get organized: 1.0%), and 5.2% were social
goals (spend time with family: 2.1%, help others: 0%, enjoy life: 3.1%).
But the research
then found out that people are only limited to wishful thinking and cannot turn
their promises into action. So, instead of saying them or posting them on
social media, we can ponder on the importance of the things we like to change
in us since these are needed for our well-being.
Do it. The
people who consume a lot of substances that destroy the body cannot claim that
they love themselves. They are probably trying to conceal something in them
that they drown themselves with alcohol and satisfy the need to enjoy all the
time. You see, there are things like “sacrifice” that we must do to have a
better future. So, how can we say that we are capable of loving others when in
fact we do not love ourselves?
Let us aim to
become better. In the long run, we are here to serve others; to make good
relationships. There are those who are so drunk with power they enjoy making
others’ lives miserable. There are some who enjoy looking for others’ mistakes.
Let them be. They are heading to something bad. We need to concentrate on what
we can do to make a better world. We need to be better to contribute something
good.
Let us face the
new year with great expectations. We can deal with the challenges and we can rise
above the difficulties. Like love, we can make ourselves become the answer.