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Deborah Lee
Personal Life Styling is about identifying areas of your life that are detrimental, and then fixing them. |
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New Year’s Resolutions – a New You or an Old Joke?
As another year threatens to draw to a close, we are faced with the inevitable New Years’ Eve and the ensuing “resolutions” that will probably gasp their last breath around 5th January…
Why do we feel the need to delve into our lifestyles just once every year, find some disagreeable habit and make a half-baked attempt to “kick it” once and for all? Why are we not looking at our lives year-round, deciding which bits are working and which aren’t? Why is New Year the only time we make some sort of conscious effort to do this?
Of course the problem with New Years’ resolutions is that we’re almost expected to give up on them; it’s almost a standing joke that we will fail so our level of expectation is so low in terms of them making an impact on our lives that it barely registers. The fact remains, however, that it is the only time we give thought to it.
Compare this scenario to a decision to make some changes around the house; decorating the living room, for instance.
We may buy a couple of interiors magazines to get a few ideas, we’ll probably visit the local DIY superstore to get some sample pots of paint and we’ll get some fabric swatches for curtains and upholstery. We will happily strew them around our living room to get an idea of how they will look, re-arrange a few pieces of furniture and look at the room from every possible perspective until we reach the decision we know to be the right one.
It’s a good job we don’t adopt the “New Year’s resolution” technique to redecorating the lounge, isn’t it? Can you imagine making a hasty decision, after one too many sherries, feeling slightly worse for wear due to mince pie overload? How would it feel to slap up the paint you hastily grabbed in the DIY store that “looked OK on the label” only to realise there was no way you could live with it? But, hey- it’d be up by then and no-one really expected you to do a good job, anyway…….
I am, of course, being slightly mean. Seriously appraising your own life is the hardest thing to do because it is so very difficult to be objective. We will automatically make “comfortable” decisions (if we make any at all); we will tell ourselves we’re doing “OK under the circumstances”. But is OK enough? Assuming that we only get this one life, are we happy with “OK”?
Perhaps this New Year’s Eve, it’s time to sit down and give some real thought to where your life is heading, to the person you’ve grown into and to whether you’re fulfilled and happy. And if you are struggling with the answers, enlist the help of a friend, or even better, a Personal Life Stylist.
Make 2008 a year to remember for all the right reasons; make it the year that you get serious about the rest of your life.
Deborah Lee specialises in Personal Life Styling, which helps transform mediocre lives into something extraordinary.
For further information, visit www.deborahlee.co.uk or call 01344 761165
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