My New Year's Resolution by Emily

My New Year's Resolution by Emily - January 2016 Scholarship Essay

New Year’s resolutions are difficult to keep and often broken because people set bizarre goals for themselves with little to no motivation to achieve them. In reality is it likely that a busy mother of four is going to lose one hundred pounds before the upcoming summer, or what are the chances of a low classed citizen becoming a millionaire? These are examples of outrageous New Year’s “resolutions” that people typically think of. But what is the true meaning of a New Year’s resolution? A New Year's resolution is a tradition in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice continuously throughout the New Year. With that said, the resolution I have made in hopes of improving myself educationally in 2016 to become a better student is to simply put my schooling before other personal enjoyments.
As Marian Wright Edelman once stated, “We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up, to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”, is a quote that I believe is acquainted with more than just voluntary work; I believe this quote is fitting to a variety of situations. Which is why my New Year’s resolution isn’t an outrageous change and is something that can easily be adapted to.
Putting my education over other personal enjoyments is going to better my schooling in many ways. I will become more focused and will no longer have irrelevant distractions; social media, television, and I will no longer procrastinate. Up until I committed myself to this resolution, I would choose to hang out with friends, watch my favorite show on television, or even sit around without doing anything productive before completing my school work, this is what needed to be changed. I’m not saying I’m no longer going to participate in those activities, but I will put my education first.
This small change in my life will better my education in many ways. I will excel in my classes, increase my GPA, and also will absorb the material I’m studying. Without the distractions of today’s society, I will become a stronger and more intelligent student. This is not just a New Year’s resolution, this is a lifestyle that will strengthen me throughout the rest of my high school career, college, and also my future life. New Year’s resolutions aren’t meant to be broken, they’re meant to transform lives.