The “New year, New Me” mindset is very popular going into the new year. The average person makes a New year’s Resolution that involves losing weight, eating healthier, getting organized,or traveling more. People make these resolutions to make big changes in their life as a way to make it better. These New Year resolutions are made at the beginning of the year because people want to start off the year fresh, and ready to be the best version of themselves.

I’ve seen a couple scenarios where they have led me to believe that New year’s resolutions aren’t the best way to change a habit. For example, my aunt makes a New year’s resolution every year to start working out, but doesn’t do so because she wants to start so suddenly. The problem that I see is New year’s resolutions don’t work out because you expect so much in so little time to change.

People tend to make New Year’s resolutions so they can change bad habits. Usually, people want to break bad habits in their health. Based on polls/surveys that people filled out in 2016, 43 percent didn’t even make it through the month without failing to follow through with their New Year’s resolution plan. As the year went on, the number of people doubled at 86 percent who didn’t even make it through the year with their New year’s resolution. According to https://www.creditdonkey.com/gym-membership-statistics.html, gyms generally expect only about 18% of people who buy memberships to use them consistently. These statistics just go to show that a lot of people with New year’s resolutions don’t necessarily follow through with their plans.

It is obvious that making a sudden change can go wrong and may be difficult to do. The motivation and ambition people have to start off new, unfortunately does not last very long. Often, people give up because they want results then and there. Another reason is people realize how unrealistic their goal is. One of the reasons I believe that it is pointless to make New Year’s resolutions is because people expect to make a sudden change. Besides making the change so suddenly, in most times the goals are far fetched and not necessarily practical or realistic.

Change is something that people look for as the New Year approaches, but many times they want results fast without a good plan on getting it. Based on my views, this is why people tend to fail. A better way to achieve a goal without setting yourself up for failure is not waiting until the next year and slowly starting to develop the better habit, instead of trying to change a habit completely on January 1st. Not only that, but setting realistic goals can help a New Year’s resolution not be pointless. Instead of making your New Year’s resolutions to never eat junk food ever again, limiting yourself slowly can help you by giving you time to change your bad habit. Overall, New Year’s resolutions can be pointless if you don’t have a good plan on how to achieve them. But, that doesn’t mean they’re impossible.