Day 20 - Forging The Resolve In A Resolution
Here we are on New Year's Eve and I think about how so many people, at the start of a new year, are quick to make resolutions with grand and mighty goals, strategize and go in fast and strong attacking bad habits and fighting to make changes, and then not long into the year, the resolutions die - whether by a slow decay or a huge crash-and-burn. Why does this happen? See, for me, it's always led me to have the response of, "Well, then, I'm just not going to make any resolutions because I never keep them." But 2016 has led me to make a bunch of changes, mostly small ones but a few large ones too, and after reading a book about habits (why and how they form and how to change them) I decided to look at this whole resolution thing again. So the next question is - how can I be different? How can I be one of the few that make a resolution and keep it? What do I need to change in order to make it stick? Well, let's do some research. Th...