Some Tips in Sticking with Your New Year's Resolution

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Have you experienced trying to state your new year's resolution only to end up failing?  What follows next is the guilt that you are not able to live up to it.  And say perhaps I could start again next year.  But then another year starts and you follow the same vicious cycle of failing.  And so you say "I'd rather not make any promise at all".  You get discouraged and fall in the pit until there is no more coming out...ouch...  

Tips...this is what this blog is all about...

1.  State What You Want to Resolve

Do not be afraid to state what you want to resolve about yourself.   Go ahead just create that list.  It does not matter the length.  Just simply and as lucid as you can give it a free hand writing...just write without even thinking what others would think and feel about them.

2.  State time to do them 

Stating the particular time or date that you would do them would greatly help.  That would mean having the time frame for implementations.  

3.  Do it

Ooops... I almost forgot this part.  Simply do it.  You have to or nothing happens with your plans or what you want to resolve.

4.  Evaluate

Check, assess, look back if you are able to do what you stated or met the time frame, deadline (however you call it).  In this manner you are able to see if you are really true to what you wrote or if you are able to commit with what you stated from the very beginning.

5.  Pray

Our acknowledgement that we are not alone and the realization of our weakness should bring us down our knees and pray.  I remember in one of those desolate moments I had, I came across this line in one of the vehicles "Prayer changes it all".

Please note that life is not a black and white thing.  Same as with the things that you want to resolve with yourself.  Some attempts may not reap the positive result you so desire.  Well you don't punish yourself for that.  Meaning...do not be so rigid so that when you fail you immediately judge yourself a failure.  We do learn from mistakes.  it has always been my inspiration looking back with that monk priest (Fr. Savio...if I am not mistaken of the Benedictine Monastery in Malaybalay City - Bukidnon) that I heard in one of his homilies that stated "there is no such thing as mistakes in life...only lessons to be learned".  We fall, we learn, we rise...over and over again.

Another thing that we should see in this process is that ...we are NOT ALONE.  This should be our constant reminder.  Man's effort alone can be futile.  We are weak by flesh and in a lot of ways.  They say "the spirit is willing but the body is weak".  That is why we need SOMEONE higher than us and is over and above human nature that has surpassed human struggles and sufferings.  We need God to accompany us in our journey.  Christ has won the battle of human weakness through the cross.  Thus, who can best accompany us except that ONE MAN that has surpassed it all.

Lastly...do you really, really want to deal with yourself through your list of new year's resolution?  Again, I would like to highlight this ....PRAYER...Just get down on your knees and pray...This is not something antique that I am telling you.  This one is the greatest hope that brings real and true joy we are looking for this new year...

GOD BLESS US ALL...HAPPY NEW YEAR:-)