But your actions say otherwise. Here’s help discovering what you really hope to accomplish this year.
IN JANUARY, A GAJILLION AMERICANS make the same resolutions, and by July, according to one study, only 46 percent are still sticking to them. Clearly, something is wrong—and if you ask me, it’s not the people, but the promises. Maybe when we “fail” to keep a resolution, it’s because deep down we know it doesn’t necessarily align with our truth.
Recently, I pulled out the list of resolutions I made for 2016 (which, of course, is almost exactly the same list I made for 1987) and contemplated it from a new perspective—that of a jaded crone. I asked myself, Do these goals resonate with me? Are they really what I want most in the entire world?
And you know what the answer was? No. So I thought about how I actually want to spend the next 12 months. Then I made brand-new resolutions:
1. GAIN WEIGHT
How much did Florence Nightingale weigh when she founded modern nursing? How much did Rosa Parks weigh when she took her seat on that Alabama bus? How much did Malala Yousafzai weigh when she started writing about the lives of girls in Pakistan under Taliban rule? You don’t know? That’s the right answer! Because it doesn’t matter.
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