This is the time when we resolve to do better in the future, diet, exercise, learn Spanish. Most are abandoned before Good Friday. This is because resolutions depend on our underlying 'resolve' as to the kind of life we want to live, and this takes some work to build. For this year try this, imagine you are a mourner at your own funeral, focus on how you feel about the person in the coffin, how do others feel? Are the emotions ones you are satisfied with? What emotions would you be satisfied with? What are the actions you need to take now to evoke those emotions at the end? This is resolve.
Back to the present, living your resolve is a daily struggle, one in which you will often fail. At every fall take a moment, pick yourself up and start again. A year is a funny thing, the time it takes our earth to complete an orbit of the sun, a convenient measure of time, but inconvenient measure of progress. It is too short for meaningful progress and too long for the milestones that build to successful completion. I work in 3rds, splitting the year into 3 periods, ending April 30, August 31, and December 31. I set milestones that can be done within a period. Find your own way of breaking up the year.
New diet? Try to get to Valentines Day, exercise program? Make Easter. Make your resolutions work by living them each day, in the full knowledge that you will stumble, and it is ok, I will rest and then go again.
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