Friday 22 March 2013

New Years Resolutions a myth?

By Clarke Matthew


By the point this draft has gone online, I?m making a guess we're beginning to feel that time has flown and the year is just about over, but how many of us have made New Years resolutions to switch the way in which we live, work, eat, socialise and go about our regular lives?

As an airline pilot, I have decided that this year aside from getting fit and making time to spend with my folks, I will attempt to for all time discover the age old query that had tormented mankind for centuries? Where does belly button fluff come from?

Has anyone asked himself or herself why do we wait until the beginning of a new year, a birthday, and an important landmark in our lives before we make these changes?

Its has been proved that generally we have a tendency to convince ourselves that by making a change at a set point in time, looking to turn over a new leaf that life will be excellent and the changes we feel must be made, will be successful. Sadly for us mere mortals in the aviation industry this thought process sometimes leads to one outcome, having the same resolutions the following year.

So what can we do to extend our success of making changes to our lives? Firstly , the odds of success increase with the necessity of the change, either understood or mandatory. You cannot expect to make changes if way down inside you don't really care on the outcome or if it is just because somebody asked you to. For those of us in the aviation industry, to maintain our airline jobs the necessity to keep your medical is rather high!

Second, change can be made at anytime; we don?t need to hang about for a memorable day to fire a modification in our way of life including waiting for a new day to start before we make adjustments.

For those among us who have tried to diet, hands up who felt that if we break the diet with a lapse of judgment (we could say with a tim-tam for afternoon tea) that we then believe the day is a write off, so we might as wel take a trip to McDonalds for dinner and start afresh the day after? (Please let me know it?s not just me). But psychological therapists say this is a common thought process for those making an attempt to diet and in truth for many folks trying to make a few changes, if we ruin one day in general we have a tendency to think, ?I?ll start again tomorrow and all will be ok? This concept process however leads to the problems many of us face. We never make change.

There are no wizardry beans, no straightforward way out, unfortunately change takes work , and if it's important to us, we can achieve success. All that it takes is embrace your targets, accept responsibility for your actions, and hopefully we will achieve what we set out to finish. Good luck everyone and have a great 2013.




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