Opportunity to Fail

New Year’s resolutions we all make them, yet the majority of us utterly fail at keeping them for a week, much less a year. The thing with resolutions is that we make the exact same one year after year. We start off saying, “Oh, well I am going to lose twenty pounds by next year.” A year later, after failing at our original resolution, we say, “Well this year I will lose ten pounds and eat right, except for the doughnut currently being shoved in my face,” or maybe we say “I am going to get a job by such and such date.” Saying we will get a job with no deadline sets up the perfect conditions for failing, saying well next week I will get that job. Oh nope maybe next month I will really work for that job and put in applications, and then of course the next month turns into well . . . maybe just next year. I can live in my parents’ basement for the next year, or year and half,…or tenish years.

Slowly we get to this big drastic change to the resolution being simple and easy to follow. If we all just made a goal every year to fail, instead of saying we will attempt to change a habit in a single moment that has been formed over years and years, maybe we should all make the worst possible resolutions. So instead of saying, “No more doughnuts,” we should plan on eating doughnuts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Not only can we still eat fried fattening sugary food, but also fail at that just like any other resolution done in previous years.

In the long run, people forget about their resolutions until the new year comes back around. The general thought is that, “Well I failed this year so I can’t start a new resolution until the next year,” so we wait a whole year to “attempt” our resolutions.