Why Do We, and Should, Make New Year's Resolutions - part 1

Have you noticed how the week leading to Christmas, and the next one, leading to New Year's Eve, have something magical and optimistic and inspirational about them?
We become more generous, relaxed, connected with friends and family... And start making plans for bigger and better things to happen to us, start planning for a more fulfilling, different, and adventurous year ahead. 
This article, (split in several parts), will answer two major questions:
1) Why is it such a good time to make new plans?
2) How to keep committed to these resolutions throughout the new year.

What is so special about the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve? Why is it actually the right moment to make resolutions?
1. Time to close an old chapter
The end of the "old" year is the time to draw a line and have a good look at that past chapter of your life. Look back and analyse - what worked, what didn't, and in what area of your life have you had enough? The strongest internal motivation to achieve change is when you are fed up with the same old results, have had enough and want to put an end to it. Whether it is the "staple items": quit smoking, lose weight, be fitter, start a new relationship, or something unique and special to you, you know you are ready for a change. You are ready, because you can look back and the retrospective pile-up of negative experiences and emotions related to that unresourceful habit give you a strong trigger to move away from them.

Leave your pile of dirt in the year gone by

And what better opportunity to move away from that old thing, than when you step through a brand new door to your future, step into the New Year, New Beginning, New YOU!

Start a new chapter

To be CONTINUED with:

2. There is magic in the air - anything is possible
3. Generous and forgiving to Yourself
4. You are relaxed and happy

Elena
Your Coach to Success