STICKING with your RESOLUTIONS
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BY SCOTT ANDERSON
e do new year’s resolutions kinda backwards. At the end of one year we make a list of the ways we aim to improve in the coming year. We write it down, make it look pretty and tell everyone about it.
All that’s not so bad, really. But then we come to the point where we start to do it wrong. That’s when we put those resolutions up on a trophy shelf, to look at and admire, like we’ve already actually done something. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. Nevertheless, we are bombarded every year at this time by this statistic: more than half of all New Year’s resolutions fail. In fact, a FranklinCover study back in 2007 found that a third of resolutions won’t make it through January. The problem is that we use “resolve” in “New Year’s Resolution” as a verb. We identify a problem, find a solution and decide on a course of action. But that should be where the fun begins, not ends.
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You see, the resolve in a New Year’s Resolution should be a noun, not a verb. It should be the grit and determination that what you have determined to do will happen, regardless of the cost.
