It's Okay To Break Your New Year's Resolution After A Month, Just Don't Give Up Completely

Every January many of us make resolutions that we know we won’t keep. For example; going to the gym every day, starting a juice cleanse, reworking that terrible sleep schedule you fell into the habit of over the Christmas and New Year season. We all know what happens by the end of January, either we haven’t improved upon them or we haven’t even started them – and that’s okay.

There is a stigma attached to New Year's resolutions, an expectancy that they will almost certainly fall through. It’s almost as though we make New Year's resolutions just to test how long they will last and how soon it will be until we break them, rather than the aim of keeping them for as long as possible until they become a daily habit.

As a generation, we prefer to tell people about our New Year's resolution and compare how long they lasted, rather than how we kept it and inspire one another for next year.

Honestly, resolutions don’t just have to be made every time the next year comes around. Resolutions can be made at the beginning of a month, start of a week or on a normal Wednesday afternoon, if you so please.

Resolutions can be as difficult as starting (regularly) at the gym, cutting one thing out of your diet or getting up at your first alarm.

Resolutions can also be as easy as you make them, such as: cut down on my Starbucks purchases by one each week, do my homework and errands before it gets dark or arrive five minutes earlier to class.

If you are truly dedicated to your resolutions then it doesn’t matter if you break them, you have that determination and mindset to improve your lifestyle that it will probably happen at another point in the year.

January isn’t the best month to change your lifestyle. Attempting to get back into the swing of work and school straight after the celebration season is harder than it seems, not to mention adding self-pressured change.

It is absolutely okay to break your New Year's resolution.

Just change it to a February resolution.