Much Ado About New Year's Resolution

January 1 every year ... kicks off with people afflicted with the New Year's Resolution bug in the eye of the storm. The malady made them focus on their individual goals, plans, and commitment for self-improvement ...  the people made it as a vow, a pledge, their personal mission for that year that needs to be started. 

Just like the now-vogue fashion week, the first week of January is a "personal renewal week" for people who want to renew and change old habits - designing small but manageable steps for growth.

As of late, however, the annual observance saw some tinge of negative coloring to it, and some people treat the New Year as an unwelcome anniversary. It is a yearly albatross around their neck ... (more like a pain in the neck) as it imposes anybody statutory deadlines, especially to people who are hell-bent in making good on their promise.

"The yearly ordeal is back," ... so they say ... the annual struggle where people have to make a roadmap and the grand scheme to better themselves and zoom in new "mission impossible" that seems so unfeasible and unattainable. They found themselves in the same trap as last year, failing again for the nth time and haunting them and their collective consciousness the whole year round.

New Year's Resolution is a nuisance. Let's face it. We know how hard it is to keep up with the challenge and the demands of making a New Year's promise, for isn't it promises are made to be broken? 

That's what we do. And it is the same routine year in and year out. But whether we keep or break our promise ... the reality is there... that New Year's resolution is like a Damocles' sword (or is it our conscience) hanging over our heads and reminding us that we are negligent and remiss, that we have not kept our word.

Imagine keeping the resolution for a month ... let alone the next 365 days? That's a mega-challenge ... a hopeless endeavor ... and an unrealistic quest.

It is for this reason that we treat and adopt a new approach to dealing with this New Year's malady. How about treating it with humor ... a new frame of mind ... a newfound playfulness ... and not getting serious about it.

So, in the spirit of looking hopeful that 2026 will be fruitful for all of us ... let us be lighthearted, have a playful attitude, and focus on fun ... let us foster a sense of camaraderie rather than being overly serious or focused on stress and worry for what lies beyond 2026.

That will help us kick 2026 off with a laugh, and the realization that most of us agree: "We will make things happen this New Year."