New Year Resolutions - assembly transcript - by Johnnie Young

This resource is a transcript, written by Johnnie Young, which encourages your students to have a New year’s Resolution and how to help ensure that it is successful. The first part is shown here:

New Year Assembly – New Year Resolutions ?
Happy New Year everybody! Happy New Year. This is the time of year when people reflect on the old year and look forward to the new. This is the time when people feel that they can make a ‘new start’. This is the time when all those New Year’s resolutions are made.
You will see more people in January jogging than in any other month. Gym membership rises in January more than any other month. More diets are started in January than in any other month. And the list goes on. People trying to make solid improvements to their lives. But if you examine carefully the statistics you will find that by about April most people who made New Year’s resolutions so passionately on January the First have found that their enthusiasm has faltered and many find themselves heading back to where they were.
Why is this? Is it because they don’t want to succeed? Of course not! They do want to success, they really do. What then? Why don’t people keep on at the improvements they so passionately desire?
Now you may be sitting there thinking: “I don’t have any New Year’s Resolutions!” My challenge to you, therefore, is to ask this simple question: If you want to improve your life then what’s wrong with having a New Year’s Resolution? I want to share with you a few ideas that I hope will help you keep to your New Year’s Resolutions, not just until April but for the whole year and even beyond.