Expert warns against making New Years resolutions

by Amy Judd | January 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

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Many people make New Years resolutions on January 1st, only to break them a mere few days or weeks later.

However an expert with Canadian Mental Health is cautioning that New Years resolutions can cause stress due to unrealistic expectations and pressure to change our lives and ourselves.

Allie Johnson suggests that instead of forcing goals upon ourselves, that we should use the turn of the year to look at our lives and look at what we really can change and want to change, not what we think we should change.

She advises instead of making resolutions, try creating a "New Year's Plan", for something that you want to change over the course of the entire year.

She adds this time of year is stressful enough with adding to it.