#61: Make your resolutions stick

You’ve made your New Year’s resolution. That’s the easy part. Making it stick is not.

The first reason for the difficulty is that a resolution is a mental intention. Although you have ‘thought’ a resolution for next year, you are still stuck in last year. The trick is to move all of you into the new year.

One way of doing so is to act on the other meanings of resolution. Resolution also means:
‘separation into components’;
‘causing discord to pass into concord’;
‘boldness of purpose’; and
‘solving problems’.

In other words, you should understand the components that make-up your resolution; remove discord that prevents commitment; be bold in execution; and learn to solve problems that crop up.

The other reason resolutions don’t easily stick is that new year’s resolutions tend to be about virtuous conduct. Maybe a resolution to behave badly would stick more easily.

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Copyright: 2006 James Henry McIntosh

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