A new year brings talk of resolutions. The conventional wisdom, though, suggests these won’t last very long. Do you bother to make New Year’s resolutions?
Share why if you wish.
Asking — and answering — life's interesting questions
A new year brings talk of resolutions. The conventional wisdom, though, suggests these won’t last very long. Do you bother to make New Year’s resolutions?
Share why if you wish.
I do make New Year’s resolutions. Most of them are set to form good habits, and most of the time I am successful.
They say that three weeks of discipline helps form a habit. So most of my resolutions are set with the goal of meeting quantifiable benchmarks for three weeks (not a year). I figure if I make it past the three-week mark, I can then get serious about turning something into a longer-term commitment.
Can I commit to a three-week commitment to meditate every day? Yep, and I did last year. While I fell out of the habit for short periods of time in 2019, I was always able to get back into things because I knew how to make shorter-term commitments first.