Whats your New Year Resolution??

2008 is here people!! For me it means a new beginning. It’s a nice time to let bygones be bygones and cherish the coming times with the intention of making more beautiful memories… blah blla bla! Oh n yes, making new year resolutions- making a resolution and then trying to beat your previous records of how long the resolution lasts. A day, 2 days, a week or more? How many resolutions have you achieved in totality? Me haven’t even bothered to….but its just fun to come up with one.
While New Year celebrations began as back as 4000 BC, for a long time, NY celebs were in spring time…. For obvious reasons. Most of our religions still follow that. It is said that 1st Jan doesn’t really have any astronomical or agricultural significance. (Google Rocks!!) For some people NY signifies Christ's Circumcision! (and that’s what we celebrate??) I didn’t have too much time or patience to research on this and beside whateva be the case …. Religious or not, scientific or not, for all of us today, its just an excuse to celebrate life and make a new beginning.
Uff! How I deviate…. Back to NY resolutions… lose weight, quit smoking/drinking, bond with family, (in one case I heard this lady say her resolution was to not to fight so much with her mom-in-law… needless to say the decision didn’t last long!)…, eating healthy, earn some X amount of money n so on. Apparently, in the times of Babylon, (do u feel like singing d Boney M song now? I do) the most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment!
But its crazy, the kind of enthu this tradition generates. There are thousand of sites online, giving you NY resolution tips and even how to sustain your pledges (this is where I got bored of using the word ‘Resolution’ n so used the thesaurus in MS Word. Some journo I am!!). One such page says- 1. Make it specific. 2. Don’t Over reach. 3. Plan Ahead. 4. Make it official. Well, who the hell doesn’t know that???
Another example is my office HR team who sent out a mail saying-
“I will do the treadmill half an hour every morning, cant believe how much I have piled on this New Year’s Eve!!!”
“I will smoke only 2 cigarettes in a day, but I must say, I have contributed to the tobacco industry unconditionally over the past years”
Been there, Done that???
Are you one of those, who enthusiastically make a new year’s resolution on the 1st of Jan every year, and conveniently slips under the cover, when it’s actually time to implement it???
Fret Not!!! Help’s on its way!!!
We, at Human Resources Junction, have created a pit stop, for all you enthusiastic resolution makers. Just make one new year resolution, which could be anything that you wish to achieve in the near future. Post that resolution to us. If your resolution falls in our bucket of effort, we will fill it to the brim.
There will be a review period of 3 months for any change initiated through the resolution drive. The review period shall end on 1st April 2008
I like the spirit….
Anyways, let me know what your resolutions are people…. Or if you have any interesting stories from previous years about the same. Hope to make this one interactive!
Lemme start- Live Life! And say F#*K Ya to whoever comes in the way of my Happiness! (too general but at least am not over reaching and I am making it official right here.) N if you have any suggestions for me.. well… Keep them to yourselves. Bah Hambug!!