I don’t know whether you ‘Crossed Over’, ‘Rolled Over’, ‘Danced Over’ or even ‘Crawled Over. But welcome to 2017!
I have already made a few mistakes with my dates since we entered the new year. I have written 2016 instead of 2017 a few times in the past few days and I can bet I am not alone. Indeed, we must be grateful for this new year, 2017. Like in every year, there are those who say 2016 was challenging in several ways but others too count that year as a blessed one. In all, God was good for seeing us through.
I can imagine you at your 31st night church service, in the quiet of your home or even at the pub, resolving or promising to quit one bad habit or two and to start doing certain things right from this new year. You must have captured all in what we call a New Year Resolution.
A New Year’s resolution is a tradition in which a person makes a promise to himself/herself to do an act of self-improvement from the first day of the new year. These improvements can be learning a new language, being physically fit or doing something nice, such as being more friendly to neighbours, work colleagues and relations.
These New Year Resolutions have become an annual ritual to several people across the world. There are some of us who have repeated some resolutions for over a decade but have failed to go by them. Most of the resolutions have to do with negative lifestyles which some individuals want to quit. Here are the top ten commonly broken New Year’s resolutions:
- Lose Weight
- Quit Smoking
- Learn Something New
- Time Management
- Eat Healthier or improve the Diet
- Spend More Time with Family
- Save Money or Get Out of Debt
- Lying
- Stealing
- Quit Alcohol
