Most popular statistic of a new year that everyone likes to remind anyone
with a New Year's Resolution is something akin to "Only 8% of those
making New Year's resolutions will achieve them." If you're anything
like me, more often than not, you go really strong with those
resolutions for a few weeks, then a hiccup comes, and you abandon them.
Something I keep forgetting when I let another day go by without going back to my resolutions, thinking I should just give it up and do it next year is that, though a year seems like a short amount of time, it is actually a pretty big difference. I mean, yeah, three weeks could go by without a resolution thought whatsoever, but, really, it's only three weeks out of the 52 weeks in the year. Sure, it's not as great as not letting those static three weeks go, but why give up because of three lousy (but awesome and fun-filled) weeks go by?
I've been trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and, oddly enough, since I've let this blog go for about three weeks, it has been hard to keep it up. Any number of things could attribute to that: school, work, normal cravings for, like, bacon cheeseburger pizza every Friday... not that that's me.
It totally is.
Anywho, I think it's pretty notable that once one resolution fell by the wayside, I let the other. It is informative and tells me a lot about me and how I work. Which I think can be spoken about many of us suffering from New-Years-Resolution-Limbo. Do we let one little hiccup crumple our plans for 2015? Do we let that ripple into other responsibilities? How can we grow form knowing this stuff about us?
Yes!! Soon it will happen!!
Something I keep forgetting when I let another day go by without going back to my resolutions, thinking I should just give it up and do it next year is that, though a year seems like a short amount of time, it is actually a pretty big difference. I mean, yeah, three weeks could go by without a resolution thought whatsoever, but, really, it's only three weeks out of the 52 weeks in the year. Sure, it's not as great as not letting those static three weeks go, but why give up because of three lousy (but awesome and fun-filled) weeks go by?
I've been trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and, oddly enough, since I've let this blog go for about three weeks, it has been hard to keep it up. Any number of things could attribute to that: school, work, normal cravings for, like, bacon cheeseburger pizza every Friday... not that that's me.
It totally is.
Anywho, I think it's pretty notable that once one resolution fell by the wayside, I let the other. It is informative and tells me a lot about me and how I work. Which I think can be spoken about many of us suffering from New-Years-Resolution-Limbo. Do we let one little hiccup crumple our plans for 2015? Do we let that ripple into other responsibilities? How can we grow form knowing this stuff about us?
"I can do all things through him who strengthens me" --Philippians 4:13
No matter the resolution, or hope, or want, no matter how many times we
fall, He strengthens and gives us power to live through it and do those
things we want or need or hope.
Woo!
Mary Taylor
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