If new beginnings are so attractive, why do many men put them off?

New beginnings on 1 January in the northern hemisphere -  demotivating

Albeit 1 January has become the most classic landmark of new beginnings, I see tremendous irony but no surprise in why the promise of new beginnings passes out of lives as quickly as the month of January.  The reasons are simple, logical, and make perfect sense:

A conflict of realities

Firstly, while 1 January celebrates new beginnings, the reality for many people is more of blues.  Not enough light, less money after the holidays, and the holiday blues all hardly motivate. Although we are socially conditioned to toast to new beginnings, many people feel unwilling to let go of comforts and charge ahead with new (dis)comforts.  Their resolutions to start something new are more symbolic of what should be than of what is. After all, with plenty of festive food and drink still in the fridge, who would want to start a diet in the middle of the dark end of the year? The light(ness) of spring is far and thinking about it now seems even more demotivating....

And are new beginnings easier in the southern hemisphere?

Yes and no. The southern hemisphere has the opposite problems.  Light at the peal of the year gives plenty of energy. But it is summer and many folks enjoy summer holidays.  Holidays are about the opposite of starting new things.  Holidays are about letting ourselves enjoy comforts of all kinds. So new beginnings can be equally demotivating.

But a month later is a different story.

As the daylight decreases and increases by roughly 15 minutes per week, daylight longer in the northern hemisphere becomes noticeable.  If a ninetofiver walks out of work at 5:30(PM), he will see daylight.  Daylight brings natural energy into the body.  We feel more alive and the pull of the outdoors. We open windows and take deep breaths. And we hear birdsong and hope for the arrival of spring. This is a much more motivating environment for starting new things. Besides, February is a month of purification from winter festivities and their consequences before the light part of the year. The promise of spring is closer now than on 1 January.

The southern hemisphere never gets as dark as the northern one. So new beginnings on 1 February are realistic owing to light. But summer holidays are still in high season. That can be a stopper.

Many means many, not all

I said at the beginning of this article that I was describing the situation of many people. Many doesn't equal all.  There are people to whom weather, darkness, nor holiday blues don't block new beginnings and getting what they want. But this is an advanced state of being and the minority. The majority of the world population - especially living in the well economically developed countries - does not live in this advanced state.

So I wrote this article for folks who need a little help to embark on their dreams.  The good word of a well-meaning friend or family member often doesn't have sufficiently strong effect due to the interpersonal dynamics and motivational mix not being absolutely right. So a different angle - to which most people would never connect this - can do the trick!  Not for nothing is February the month of purification! And another fact is that once upon a time new year started on 1 March...

Or why bother with new beginnings?

And there is another solution too - not to make new promises of what one will do!  There are also folks who never make them, because they don't have to wait for the new year, first of a month, or tomorrow to do what they want. They just do it. However, they have matured to the advanced state of being which I mentioned earlier. Are you one of them? Or...

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