New Year Resolutions: 10 Reasons Not To Make Them

When you tell someone, “I’ve made a new year’s resolution to….” The response you’re most likely to get is “Ha-ha…good luck with that!”

Resolutions are made to be broken so why bother making one anyway? Never make a resolution about something you really want or you’re doomed. There’s so much pressure to make a new year resolution and everyone will tell you why you should make one, and how you should go about sticking to them, so I thought I’d show you the other side of the coin too. Here are 10 reasons why you shouldn’t make a resolution this year.

1. Jay Leno
   Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution.




Jay Leno - photo by Michael Albov

2. James Agate
   New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

3. Eric Zorn
   Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

4. Anais Nin
   I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
   
   
5. Anonymous
   A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.

6. Mark Twain
   Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

7. George William Curtis
   The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

8. F.M. Knowles
   He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
   He who makes one is a fool.
   
   
9. Anonymous
   Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
   
   
10. Oscar Wilde
    Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Don’t let me get you down. Go ahead and make some resolutions. I was just having a bit of fun while everyone around me is busy planning their life-changing miracles! Hope you had a good laugh?

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