Next Year I Will...

The end of the year is getting closer, and holidays are just around the corner. This is a time of merryment in which the only thing on people's minds is celebrating.

Along with the celebrations come the New Year's resolutions, promises people make to improve their lives and be better in the future. Quit smoking, start on a serious diet, pick up some sport are amongst the common ones. What is common to all of them is that desire for a better future.

So the New Year arrives, and people is ready to dramatically change their lives. While january is with us you can and you will see how people strive to keep their promises, smokers become frantic lollipops eaters, those who have extra wieght replace hamburguers for fruits and sedentaries swet their way to a healthier life. Do they look happier? Surely not. They are not doing this gigantic effort because they really want it, they are doing it because they feel they should change. So by february, smokers are chimneys again, fatties are choking with fast food and couch potatoes are back on their sofas because all the struggle brought nothing but misery.

Picking up new habits, or giving up others, should be a decision taken out of conviction, out of real drive. When this is the case you don't wait until the beginning of the year or moday to start a diet, you start the diet immediately when you realise you are not happy with the way you are. Changing what's wrong in our life is not an easy task. especially if you take it as an obligation. Turming our lives around should be an enriching challenging experience done only because we feel it's absolutely necessary. It a decision that should makes us feel well about ourselves right away, even if we know it is going to be difficult.

So if you are thinking about your New Year's resolutions, come up with something you absolutely want to do, something that will bring you plesure and a sense of acomplishment. Don't say you will quit smoking because it's health damaging (you have known that for years?), quit smoking because right now it is your health the one being damaged.