Damn New Year resolutions - there's an alternative!

Here's the thing about New Year resolutions:
They are cumbersome.
They are a pain in your rear.
They are deemed a necessity.
They are seldom achieved.

So why do people still do it? The answer to this question, one that could lead into many sentences, in one I do not wish to dwell upon.

However, is there an alternative? Yes, there is.

Monthly resolutions!

What?
Yes, monthly resolutions, the answer to all our problems (ok, not honestly so, but it helps if you can see it this way). They are equivalent to New Year resolutions, except in very much smaller and more practically achievable chunks, resolved and attained in a month. Does it work? Hell yeah! (At least for me it does, being a person who wants fast results in short periods of time with minimum effort – isn’t that something we all want?)

How?
If you've made a New Year resolution, then take this resolution, do a critical analysis, break it down into smaller chunks, and set one of these chunks as a monthly resolution.

If you don't have a New Year resolu...what???!!! Now you're in trouble because you first need to come up with resolutions. Ok scrap that. Find those little cracks in your life that lead to bigger issues. Figure out the patch works needed to fix these little cracks, and voila, you’ve got yourself a monthly resolution.

Let's not go overboard – one resolution per month is all you should burden yourself with. Come end of the month, if resolution achieved, pat self on back for the good work done, and then go about setting another resolution for the following month. If resolution failed, stick it up on a punching bag, beat the crap out of it, vent out anger, and then go about setting another resolution for the following month. Continue cycle until dead.

Why?
Errr…I don’t know, because you want your life to become more awesome than it already is, but without all the self hypocrisy and the procrastination that lasts an entire year before it's time to make another bullshit New Year resolution? Or quite simply, because you don't want to make a promise on yourself at the start of a brand New Year and then have to crack your skull trying to figure out how you're ever going to keep this promise. Breaking a promise to yourself is sad. Put an end to it. Today. Hooray for monthly resolutions.

Happy New Year!