My promises of change for the new year
Few, but good. This is the resolution expert advice that almost everyone does at the start of the new year. Lose weight, quit smoking, go to the gym etc. etc. These three are enough to laugh a whole year. After a week they are all canceled and forgotten.
Who then makes hundreds of promises hoping that at least by chance, someone will come true. The commitment to make them unfortunately does not give us the New Year and here is the failure of everything.
I promise it will be better in 2024!
If you want to be successful in this world, promise everything and keep nothing. (Napoleone Bonaparte) Perfect for all the promises we make in the last days of the year or at the very first January, when the alcohol fumes of the New Year's Eve have not yet vanished, here we can promise many things, certainly beautiful and nobles, but which will be forgotten in full sobriety.
A study says that 80% of the promises have vanished by January 10 and unfortunately none of us have been as successful as Napoleon!
The words of Confucius resonate much truer, who said: "Be very careful in speaking, so that you do not have to be ashamed if your actions were not then up to the speeches."
HERE ARE A FEW PHRASES ABOUT PROMISES:
My phone battery lasts longer than your promises.
You don't have to be big to start, but you have to start to be big.
Mankind has many weaknesses, but the main two were: inability to arrive on time and inability to keep promises. (Bukowski)
Those who are slower to promise are quicker to keep. (Rousseau)
Promises, big and small, are the soul of advertising.
To change your life: Start now. Do it in a flashy way.
A new beginning is a process. A new beginning is a journey, a journey that requires a plan. (V. Jokotade)
Promises can also be made as long as they are forgotten.
The new year does not have to keep any promises because you have never promised anything to anyone.
Everyone can accurately promise everything they know they won't keep.
There comes a time when you have to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
You can start over at any time. Life is just the passage of time and it's up to you to spend it as you please.
If it is true that every promise is a debt, I am indeed full of promises, some very important.
The first step in getting somewhere is to decide that you will not stay where you are.
Promised wood does not light the stove. (Ukrainian proverb)
