How's Your Resolution Going?
The start of a new year is always an opportunity. It is a fresh beginning, a new chapter, another chance to get it right. Why would anyone not take advantage of such a moment? Some will say it is not good to make resolutions because no one ever keeps resolutions. But that is not true.
John Norcross, professor at the University of Scranton, has written on change and is an expert on new year's resolutions. He says that at the six-month period of a resolution, 40 percent of people are still keeping their resolutions. Furthermore, other research shows if you make the same resolution three years in a row, there is a high probability it will actually happen.
The most popular resolutions year after year are having finances in order, getting healthier, making a marriage better, breaking bad habits and being closer to God. Many of those resolutions have a focus on the individual — and some say this is another thing wrong with making resolutions: It is wrong to make resolutions that are focused on yourself and not on others. This kind of either/or thinking does not help anyone.
Here is a resolution for this new year: Stop thinking either/or and start thinking both/and. Why couldn't you have resolutions focused on your own life as well as on how you are going to help others? Both can certainly happen. This one shift in the way you think and the way you look at life could have an amazing impact on your life in the new year.
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