Ending One Year, Starting Another

It is now time to look back and assess if any of us have managed to achieve the resolutions we all made at the end of last year or not. Unlike most people, I can definitely and truthfully say, "Absolutely, yes!" There is, however, an easily understandable reason behind that—I simply did not make any resolutions at all to begin with!

It has been widely proven that less than 1% of the people who make them successfully keep their resolutions, so, I have to question why we continually promise ourselves something which will only cause us frustration? In my opinion, it would certainly be better, at the onset, to be somewhat less ambitious in the effort to improve ourselves. Furthermore, it might also be better to make such resolutions in another season, and most certainly, at a less emotional time than immediately after Christmas, yet, right before the New Year!

Hi, Angel. Good job! Whatever changes that I’ve made were merely done to allow your sentences to sound more natural to my native ears, to allow for ease of reading, and to make your points into statements. I hope that this helps you. J. 

Just my suggestions:

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Ending a Year, Starting another One

It is time to look back and assess whether or not we have achieved our resolutions made at the end of last year. Unlike most people, I can say "Yes". There is a simple reason for that: I did not make any resolutions at all. In my opinion, only a small percentage of people succeed in keeping their resolutions. So why do we risk becoming frustrated as a result of making promises to ourselves which we know we shall not be able to keep? Perhaps we should try to be less ambitious in our resolutions, and perhaps we should make them at a less emotional time than Christmas. Then we might have a better chance of success.

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But here’s a thought or two. I do a bit of sports coaching and always remember some humorous advice I heard about Goal Setting. “If you don’t make your athletes set themselves goals, how do they know when they get there!” A handy goal setting mnemonic in English is SMART. For an explanation follow the link: https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/smart-goals.php

Ending a Year, Starting another One