Have you ever made New Year’s Resolutions, and then gotten too stressed to ever do them? This is one of the many problems with making New Year’s Resolutions. One of the most common resolutions is working out or losing weight; however, hardly anyone can actually keep it. This could be due to them forgetting, double-scheduling, or either their goal being “too hard” for them to sustain. Therefore it is very hard to maintain a New Year’s Resolution when people have many other things to do in their daily lives.

So that brings us to our question. Are New Year’s Resolutions helpful? We say not exactly because if they are unreachable for you physically or mentally, they can cause pain to your muscles, stress, anxiety, and in severe cases, depression. However, New Year Resolutions can be helpful for you if you make them achievable for you mentally and physically. For example, setting a goal to lose 150 pounds by the end of the year, and you try to lose it all at once, isn’t good for your physical and mental health because you are putting strain on your body and it’s discouraging when you can’t lose it all at once. 

The first thing we really want to deep dive into though, is how you can make New Year’s Resolutions doable and helpful for yourself. Like when you set a resolution to lose 10 pounds every two months, to end up losing 150 pounds instead of trying to lose 150 pounds in a month. Or another good New Year’s Resolution is doing an easier version of a New Year’s trend or challenges. Let’s say the challenge is working out five times a day and you know your body can’t do that so you make it a goal to work out two times a day instead. A helpful New Year’s Resolution for your mental health is to stop caring what other people say about you, the way you dress or look. Instead only care about how you see and think of yourself.

In conclusion, New Year’s Resolutions aren’t very helpful because they can cause stress, anxiety and many more negative things. However, they can also be helpful if done in moderation or more achievable ways. Therefore, you can make New Year’s Resolutions but be mindful of what they are.