To Resolve To...

1/25/16 To Resolve to…

 

So, how are your New Year’s Resolutions going? Did you make any? Why, or why not? Most people I know who don’t make them believe that they are more of a fad or the result of peer pressure than anything necessary. Certainly, we know that almost no one fulfills their resolutions. “Resolution” is a word with several meanings. We use the term relevant to New Year’s to describe our resolve to accomplish something. Consider author Alex Morritt’s thoughts, “Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.” We could also use it to describe the solution to a problem. I have observed that we make “resolutions” to resolve a concern that we perceive plagues us; our health, our thought life, our habits, etc. Considering that we frequently use resolutions to end bad habits, I remember the classic Mark Twain quote, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”


Quitting a bad habit does, probably, require several attempts. Changing something significant about our lives DOES take intention and a particular moment when we try to steel our resolve to tackle it. Find a resolution to your problem. Use all of your other faculties to control a really big one in your life/body that is holding you back. Use the same intelligence I see you use in your work to resolve the problem you are looking to fix. As Dejan Stojanovic quipped, “Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” The solution isn’t easy, but it’s worth working on. So, don’t quit quitting, and don’t stop starting! Never stop improving.