Good Intentions

Happy New Year!!! Everyone gets a new start at the beginning of the year. Last year is history. Many people have good intentions and set up resolutions to change something in their lives. The problem is, very few resolutions are ever kept. Why is that?

There are many reasons for this. Probably the most obvious is that people don't really make the effort to change. The good intentions are there, but the commitment is not. IBM has had a very popular advertising message, "stop thinking", "start doing". Change is work. If it was easy, change would not be necessary because you would have already done it.

I've never been a person for resolutions. To me, change is constant. Why set up one day to say you're going to make a change, and before the week is out, you've already given up? To me, a resolution is a promise. I strive never to make promises I can't keep.

Some people don't know the steps in change. They don't know how to set up milestones to track their progress, to make stepping stones along the way. Life is not all or nothing. There will always be obstacles, challenges, curves, setbacks, etc.; but if something is really important to you, you will never stop. This is what change is about - never stopping, never quitting, learning from disappointments. Temporary setbacks are usually a springboard for leaps ahead.

However, if you're one to have difficulty setting up the proper steps, visit www.mygoals.com. This website is all about setting goals. There are a lot of good ideas and step by step processes to achieving goals in many areas of your life. There are also pre-made goals to achieve common specific achievements.

Success in life is really about fulfillment. Good intentions don't count.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 (NIV)

It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it. Ecclesiastes 5:5 (NIV)


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