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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

New Year ReVolution

Every year someone invariably asks me the question:

Have you made your New Year's Resolution?

First, I let out a long apathetic sigh... then, I give my usual answer... "I don't do resolutions". 

I have not really ever bought into the whole notion that someone can make a monumental change in their life the way most americans do on December 31st. I have witnessed too many good intentions go by the wayside, usually within a few days of their declaration.

These decisions are usually not well thought out, I have seen many of the usual promises - lose weight, quit smoking, work harder -- given up for dead by mid February at the latest.

So, I have to ask... what's the point?

I looked up the definition for Resolution:   the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones

That is odd, seems to me, the way most people make their resolutions, is not through analyzing anything complex. They hardly invedsigate the process it takes to properly resolve to change, to steadfastly preservere through the doggedness that gets in the way, I rarely see the tenacity it takes to turn a resolution into a true purpose.

Seriously, how many people do you know who can truly say at the end of the year - they followed through on a resolution?

The numbers are so low, resolutions are nothing more than an empty promise.

REVOLUTION:  a sudden, radical, or complete change.

Let me translate...

If you are going to make a promise to change. Just do it.

This year could be the year where you can make a fundamental change, a drastic change. 

I have a good friend who's family motto is "eat the elephant one bite at a time". I love that for the day to day decisions we face in our life. However, you first have to catch the elephant!

That takes revolutionary thinking!

There must be a far reaching change in the way you think, behave. That is a paradigm change. That is lasting change.

Change that will transform you. It will reform, alter who you are today. Change takes upheaval, reform and innovation... it takes a decision and the guts to follow through.

Revolution takes courage.

How brave are you?