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Can You Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions?

Another year has come and gone, and another new year is here. With each new year, many of us make yet more New Year resolutions – and often ones that we just don’t keep. We dream big, but we often fail to follow through.

Some might resolve that this will be the year to lose that extra weight, yet the eating and exercise habits won’t change whatsoever to achieve that goal. Some might resolve to finally get out of debt, yet the spending and budget habits won’t change to make that resolution a reality. There will be some that will make the resolution that this will be the year that they will find a decent man, yet the first time the phone rings (and it’s the creep that keeps cheating on her), she’ll be out the door with him in a New York minute.

So what can we do?

The solution sounds simple enough: don’t make resolutions that you can’t (or won’t) keep AND/OR follow through on the resolutions that you make.

Change isn’t always easy. But that’s exactly what New Year’s resolutions are about – change.  If we want things to change in our lives, we have to make a change. Let’s face it – no one is going to do this for us, we have to do it. If we want to lose weight, no one can do it for us. If we want our finances and spending to change, no one can do it for us. If we want our romance life and self-worth on it to change, no one is going to do it for us.  We have to move on beyond the New Year’s resolutions and turn those resolutions into resolved.

Change your outlook – change your life!

Once you change the way you look at yourself and your life, those resolutions will be so much easier make into reality.  You need to see your own value and self-worth. You should never have to settle for a man that doesn’t treat you right. You have the ability to shape your own body by eating right and exercising. You can control your spending and finances. You can learn and educate yourself to get a better job or work for yourself.  You can stop smoking. You can stop drinking. And the list goes on and on.  You can do just about anything that you REALLY want to do. You just have to want to and follow through.

There’s an old saying – “CAN’T never could do anything”.  (Yes, that’s a double negative, but that’s how the saying went.) If you make New Year’s resolutions, but deep inside you keep telling yourself that you can’t do this or that, then you’ll never be able to. As long as you tell yourself you can’t do something, your life won’t ever change.  So make a new saying – “CAN can do anything”.  And believe it!

So the question of can you keep those New Year’s resolutions has an answer.  But the answer depends on you. Yes, you can keep them if you really want to. So instead of setting yourself up for disappointment, resolve that you will do what you set out to do.

Make this the year that you actually keep those resolutions and see those good changes in your life!

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