Better

 

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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.