Resolve to Loose the Resolution...

Because Resolutions have become so cliche in modern American New Year's customs so has the actions behind them become abated and slowed. When the conversation is had: "So what's your New Year's resolution", the cliche reply is typically "Quit smoking, loose weight, stop cursing...". All noble and admirable issues to contend with , yet the mere superficiality in the response speaks to the amount of energy the individual places on his resolution. This... advertisers, marketing and big business know so well as studies have shown that the average resolution dissipates in two weeks.

The truth is one must resolve to dedicate himself to something much deeper than that, one must resolve to take an oath at creating a healthier lifestyle and environment throughout the year of 2015! When you are focused first on the specifics/details the momentum rushes up (gyms are flooded) and quickly dies out, creating a pressure for the personality that causes it to rebel. Yet when you resolve to change the lifestyle habits and behaviors foremost then all things healthier will be the mission. If you resolve to "quit smoking", that is on the agenda for the entire year but not to place undue pressure on the mind that will rebel while quickly the intention fizzles out.

Placing increased pressure on oneself towards only one detail ruins the momentum needed to create a sustained balance to the entire objective. The details are needed in order to keep a consistent pace and plan throughout the course of the year but it must NOT be a mere pie in the sky that quickly plummets to the earth. Build a steady momentum, a steady strategized increase in energy towards an overall change in thinking, habit and behavior. Resolution takes a holistic view of the whole broken into the many parts and the parts broken down even further into daily task.


Once we map the new lifestyle we are resolving to create and commit to then a change in the mindset seeps in (seed planted) followed by alterations subtly in the behavior. We first decide to quit smoking, we make ask our family physician of a course to take (letting someone who can be of real assistance to achieving our task, they can also hold us accountable). We then take the needed steps, while increasing our daily exercise regimen to balance the changes happening in our body and environment. Make sense?  One mere solution to our entire resolution is not enough. In conclusion an overall agenda for the New Year is needed, a break down of plans are required and an execution of will is the final stage.

Try it & you will surely see results at the end of the year....dedication is key! 

Love,

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