There are many reasons to look forward to a new year, and for many people it is a chance to make resolutions or set goals for themselves.
It is important that if you are one to make resolutions that it is something attainable, since it can be a good feeling when you have achieved a goal that you have made.
The best advice that I can give others, is to make several small goals to a larger year-end resolution. It is a lot easier to celebrate achieving small steps along the way, and gives you motivation to keep working to achieving the larger goal in mind.
It is also important to reflect on past resolutions, and evaluate why those goals were either possible to achieve, or if you had set the bar too high and abandoned the resolution. There is nothing wrong about changing your resolution either, especially if you realize that your expectations were too high when compared to realizations.
There are some common resolutions, such as financial management, physical fitness improvement, or even the new ‘Take A Break’ campaign to spend less time on Social Media.
The important thing is that when you are making a resolution it is something that will truly improve your own life, or empower yourself. If you are taking a common resolution, personalize it for your life, and you will have a much better chance of achieving it.
As we reflect on the past year, there might be some moments of regret or sadness, especially for those who have lost someone close to them. It is important to try to focus on the good things in your life at the same time, and take the time to focus on that positivity as we embark into a new year.
I really applaud those individuals who take the time to have ‘Memory Jars’, where they put little notes of special memories or events that had happened during the year, and then celebrate those events by opening the jar on New Year’s Eve.
It is a creative and fun way of celebrating the small moments that happened, and remind yourself of the good in your lfie.
One of the biggest hopes in my heart is that we start to see the light at the end of the tunnel, when it comes to COVID-19 restrictions and mandates. I really hope that the provincial government has learned from previous ‘Re-Open Mandates’ that unfortunately pushed us back into restriction mode.
We still need to work together as communities to get through this situation, and I know that there will come a time when it is safer for us to remove the masks. We just have to be patient and understanding.
