New Year's Resolution
Every January 1st we make New Year's Resolutions because we
want a better year if not a great year, and it is a
long-standing tradition of the holiday. Resolutions usually
revolve around a long-standing want, need, or problem we have
that we would like resolved. Something, for example, like
losing weight to look better and increase your health and life
expectancy. That entails things like working out, eating right,
and the thing that ties everything else together... thinking
right. What you are going to learn will make this
systematically automatic.
The average life expectancy of you doing things right to
accomplish your resolution is about four days! Nothing got
resolved - because you had no resolve! Rather, you had just a
fleeting notion to start putting in effort. It ends before
achieving effect and the next year, you are again facing off
against your failure.
"This year will be different," you might say. Well, here is
something to do to make it that way. Your New Year's Resolution
Solution is to change your timetable. Reviewing progress you
made for a year is not enough. We too easily forget and let it
slip from our mind to unimportance. Give yourself instead a
weekly review of your progress. So, let us see. In the first
week you put in four days toward your resolution. That is
pretty good actually! Just three days a week in a gym is enough
to give people very favorable results.
Working from your success for that week, take in the mindset
that your resolution is not so much a goal as it is a game. The
goal is the prize that keeps you motivated, but the game is
keeping at doing what you need to do in order to win that
prize. Going ahead for another week will get you ahead of the
bulk of players. If you don't believe it, then notice how the
over-crowded health club you were in last week now seems like a
very vacant facility this week.
Congratulations, you persevered when they did not! Be steadfast
and stay in the game! See it as utmost importance to have
unwavering commitment to the point of relentless obsession for
the prize. "GO FOR THE GOLD," as Olympians would say. You have
got to totally immerse yourself in the game in order to play it
right. You have got to be a game enthusiast! You are on a
journey, a Holy Quest! A journey to a game enthusiast means
FUN!
The calendar is your game board. Don't be taken off the board.
Be steadfast and stay in the game! Every week is a trip around
the game board. Every seventh day is where you contemplate,
analyze, figure, fix, alter, improve, refine, adapt, adopt,
re-adopt, pat yourself on the back and give yourself a reward,
then re-dedicate yourself to your plan of action for the
following week. 52 times around the board and you are crowned
King or Queen! FOR REAL!
That not only gives you your goal, it gives you royal bragging
rights - tales of how you victoriously conquered your enemy and
seized controlling power over your vast enchanted dominion. So,
whether they are led by the archetype of oversize ogres, a
maniacal wizard, or menacing dragons, matters not. You can
credulously threaten that any enemy you righteously declare war
on this year will also face the same fate of being permanently
vanquished by your invincible heroic army of devoted and boldly
brave Knights of the New Year's Resolution.
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