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When I will be King : Solution to New Year Resolutions

Many a times I have felt, and most of you might also have felt, what would you do if things went the way you want. Sadly, we cannot get the world run the way we wish, but we can definitely put all those sweet and crazy thoughts in words. So here I present, "When I will be king" series in which I will post all those fetishes I would accomplish when I will be king.
The original idea comes from a very geeky blog that I read sometime during November last year and thought of having something similar on my blog as well. It happened to be my New Year Resolution. Two months passed and I hardly got time to log into the blog. Better late than never. Right?
So here I go.

Opening Post (from that same geeky blog.)
When I will be king

I resolve to end New Years resolutions.
Every year, we're supposed to make resolutions for New Years. Things we want to accomplish. Personal Goals. New healthy habits. Things to strive for.

You know what resolutions are? They're a setup for defeat.

If you bother to make any resolution at all, you try for something lofty; you set some goals that sound nice:
“I'm going to go to the gym 5 days a week”
"I'm going to lose 10 kgs”

Of course, the result is that you fail to achieve the goals. Why change things now? You've lived this long, why put yourself out on the whim of the calendar turning over to the new year?

So another resolution dies an early and hushed-up death. The year crawls by and another New Years comes up and you make another attempt:
“I'm going to hit the gym 4 days a week”
“I'm going to lose 5 kgs”

On it goes, year in and year out: we set goals, we blow them, we feel awful about ourselves.

Why do we need this stress? What's the point in creating a game that we're bound to lose?

My administration will impose something new and exciting called:

Presolutions

With this new twist on the old tradition, people will look back on the previous year, pick something they are proud of, or just something that happened to them, and set a goal that they will have achieved already:
“I will have avoided setting one foot in the gym all year.”
“I will have gained 20 kgs”

No longer will we fail to attain goals; we will succeed every single year, by definition.

Why be Future Failures? Let us be Past Achievers instead.

Presolution: the Resolution Solution.

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