Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions - and what’s wrong with them
Betcha can guess #1…
Betcha can guess #1…
Below are 5 resolutions I made (completely in earnest) in past years and totally failed to keep, complete with the date and disastrous nature of my failures:
Do you know the number one reason New Year’s resolutions fail? No? Hmm, well, maybe I’ll tell you later… Okay, no, I’ll suck it up and write about it now. The primary reason resolutions fail is, not surprisingly, procrastination. Doing anything later is always easier than doing it now. It’s really easy to adopt the mindset that you have all year to accomplish your goals, and that getting a slow start (or no start) in January won’t affect your progress too much. That’s true–but only if you don’t want to make any progress at all, and we’re all here because we do want to make progress, right? Read on for the rest of the reasons why New Year’s resolutions fail… Continue reading
Christmas is over, so it’s time to start making some New Year’s resolutions. Ahhh, New Year’s resolutions: many people make them; few people keep them. The tradition of resolving to make a change in the new year is said to have originated with the ancient Babylonians; it’s speculated that a common resolution in Babylonia was to return borrowed farm equipment to start the new year fresh, without owing anyone.