Over the past few weeks, print, online and on-air media have been hammering us with 2022 New Year’s resolution stories.
The number of resolutions on offer range from small:
To ridiculous:
To insane:
Sixty New Year’s resolutions?
This story describes its resolutions as “modest”:
And this one as “funny”:
And there’s a slew of New Year’s resolution articles that are sports-related, like this one:
There are health experts offering resolutions:
And financial experts offering resolutions:
And fashion experts offering resolutions:
For this post, I googled “new year’s resolutions 2022” and got more than 71 million results:
We are drowning in a sea of New Year’s resolution stories:
And I haven’t even gotten started on stories about how to manage resolutions, like this one:
And I won’t get started.
Because the bottom line is:
New Year’s resolutions are a set-up to fail.
And I refuse to set myself up to fail.
Not that there isn’t plenty of room for improvement for me – there is.
But I think New Year’s resolutions are not the way to go. They’re often unrealistic, frustrating, and ineffective.
What do you think?
If, over the next week or two, a friend or family member or co-worker asks about your New Year’s resolutions, perhaps consider saying:
“My resolution is to not make resolutions.”
And if they start making negative noises.
Feel free to…
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