We make New Year's Resolutions every year on January 1 because we want a better, if not a great, year. This has been a tradition of the holiday for a long time. Most resolutions are about something we've wanted, needed, or had trouble with for a long time and want to fix. Something like losing weight to look better, improve your health, and add years to your life. That means doing things like working out, eating right, and the most important thing, thinking right. What you're about to learn will make this easy for you to do every time.
If you do everything right, you should be able to keep your resolution in about four days. Nothing got fixed because you didn't fix anything. Just a quick thought to start working hard. It ends before it has any effect, and the next year you have to deal with your failure again.
You might say, "This year will be different." Here's something you can do to make it happen. Change your schedule to keep your New Year's resolution. It's not enough to just look back at your progress over the past year. We forget and let it go because it doesn't seem important enough. Instead, take a look at your progress once a week. So, let us see. In the first week, you worked on your goal for four days. In fact, that's pretty good! People can get great results from going to the gym just three days a week.
Think of your resolution as more of a game than a goal based on what you've done well in the past week. The prize is what keeps you going, but the game is to keep doing what you need to do to win that prize. By waiting another week, you'll be ahead of most players. If you don't believe it, just look at how the health club you went to last week when it was packed is now almost empty.
Congratulations, you kept going when other people gave up! Stay in the game and don't give up! Think it's very important to be so dedicated to the prize that you can't stop thinking about it. Olympians would say, "GO FOR THE GOLD." To play a game well, you have to throw yourself into it completely. You have to enjoy playing games. You are on a Holy Quest, a journey. A trip means FUN to a person who likes to play games.
Your game board is the calendar. Don't lose your position. Stay in the game and don't give up! The game board is moved around once a week. Every seventh day is for thinking, analysing, figuring, fixing, changing, improving, refining, adapting, adopting, re-adopting, patting yourself on the back, giving yourself a reward, and recommitting to your plan of action for the next week. If you go around the board 52 times, you become King or Queen. FOR REAL!
That will not only get you to your goal, but it will also give you the right to brag about how you beat your enemy and took control of your huge, magical kingdom. So it doesn't matter if they are led by the archetype of big ogres, a crazy wizard, or scary dragons. You can make a credible threat that any enemy you rightfully go to war with this year will also be permanently defeated by your unbeatable army of dedicated and brave Knights of the New Year's Resolution.
