It's 2015, I can’t believe it is a New Year! How can 2014 already be over? Every year millions of people try to make a New Year’s resolutions, including myself. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I don’t. This past year I succeed in my resolution.A few days before the New Year, I usually think about that to do, what I should change or work on. Usually its stuff like surf more, get in shape, be happier, get organize, things that most people tend to think about.
This past year however, I decided to change up how to come up with my resolution. I decided that I should spend some time praying about what God wanted me to work on. I knew that God loved me just the way I was, but I also knew that God wanted me to become the best I could. So I sat in prayer for a few days in the morning thinking about what I should work on. I also did some research on how to succeed in your New Year’s Resolution and I found some interesting facts about why people tend to fail. Most people fail because their goals aren’t realistic, they don’t plan ahead or map it out, and they beat themselves up when they fail.
At first, my resolution was to lose weight and get in shape to look better. With the information I had on how to succeed and I realized that was a pretty unrealistic goal, and pretty vague. So I changed it to, “be healthier” and I wrote down what I was going to do to become healthier. My list was simple and realistic. It started out with easy things, like I would only eat fast food three times a week for a month, then the next month twice a week, and so on. I did fail every so often but instead of beating myself up over it, I forgave myself and to my surprise it worked. I was reading an article one day and it said that when we fail at something we tend to give guilt control and we continue that behavior over and over. The article said to learn to forgive ourselves and move on. I remember a time where life got busy and I ate fast food a lot and guilt creeped in. So I kept on eating fast food. Then I remembered this article and every time I ate fast food I forgave myself and moved on. With a few days I was back on track.
One thing that I did add which the articles didn’t have was prayer. I started to pray a lot more for my resolution. Since I was in prayer for what my resolution should have been I just continued to be in prayer for it. Now, I didn’t pray every day or once a week on my resolution. But when I felt tempted to get a quick bite I did pray and it helped out a lot.
Now, it’s been a year and every so often I do eat fast food but not near as much as I used to, maybe once every six weeks. Since then I am proud to say that I have lost over 30 lbs. and this year, in 2015, I am taking on another New Year’s resolution.
As I am writing this blog I am not sure exactly what it is because I am still praying about it, but I think I have an idea and it’s to work out more. I am working on a plan on how I am going to do it and I will be writing it down. I pray that I am able to succeed again and if I don’t I won’t beat myself up over it. So, we will see how I am doing in a year from now.
I hope you all have a wonderful New Year and if you take on a New Year’s resolution, that you too succeed.[Richard Annett, Director of Student Ministries at First Church]
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