Or shall I ask: are you ready to stick to your New Year’s resolutions?
To make progress, we must be regular in our practice of it. Some people catch fire at the beginning, but when the novelty wears off in a few days and the hard work sets in, their fires dampen and go out. They cut back, postpone, make excuses, perhaps feel guilty and apologetic. This is precisely where our determination is tested, where we can ask ourselves, ‘Do I really want to get over my problems? Do I want to lose weight? Feel HEALTHIER, lighter and happier in my body and mind? Do I want to discover how to make better nutritional choices and fuel my body and mind with food, yoga, exercise and lifestyle I need so I would have the energy and tools to go for my life’s dreams?
There is only one failure: the failure of losing faith – premature quitting. A Hindu proverb says, ‘Miss one morning, and you need seven to make it up.’ Or as John of the Cross expressed it, ‘He who interrupts the course of his routine is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.’”
Fascinating, isn’t it?
It is human to be a hero in the beginning, catch fire in the beginning and then sneak out the back door when it gets a little tougher.
We ALL do that. And every year we set up the resolutions without changing our attitude towards them. At some point, we’ve got to see the tendency and choose to overcome it—KNOWING that the buzz will wear off and that we need to push through the discomfort and ESTABLISH THE HABIT.
Lose an hour in the morning and you will spend all day looking for it
It is important to never miss a day but more important is to bounce back to what we decided to stick to. That is of course if you really want to? Do you? Here’s to making a 100% commitment to our resolutions (and other keystone habits we build one by one), rocking it and bouncing back to it CONSISTENTLY!
New Year’s resolutions
To make sure we cultivate the mindset of the marathon runner, not simply jogging once or twice around a track. It is good to be enthusiastic when making the New Year’s resolutions on 1st January but it is essential to be equally enthusiastic, equally sincere, at the end of the first week, and the end of the first month, and for all the months to come! In order not to fail the New Year’s resolutions we must renew our enthusiasm and commitment daily and give our best all the time. Success comes to those who keep at it — walking when you cannot run, crawling when you cannot walk, never saying ‘No, I can’t do this,’ but always ‘I’ll keep trying.’
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