Have you made any New Year's Resolutions this year? And have you broken them yet?
Or do you make your resolutions throughout the year?
A new year is a great psychological boundary for making changes in your life. There's a good impetus for keeping your new year's resolutions because new years don't come around very often. Boundaries like this can be very helpful.
But what if you discover something wrong in your life in June? Do you wait until the next new year before making the change? Do you carry on, knowing your failure, for another 6 months just because you don't have a nice boundary like a new year?
Why don't you try making New Month's Resolutions? A month is a nice boundary. Not as big as a new year, so if you don't keep to it, you could just make the same resolution for the next month and try again. And again, and again.
Even better, what about a New Day's Resolution? If you don't keep to it, try again the next day.
Nobody does New Day's Resolutions though do they?
Erm, actually they do. Any they are usually a lot more successful than those that limit themselves to New Year's Resolutions.
If your willpower strength is so low that you need a huge boundary like a new year in order to make changes in your life, you're unlikely to stick to it. You don't need to make a New Year's Resolution, you need to improve your willpower.
Successful people can identify a failing in their life and change it straight away. And stick to it. They don't need to wait for a suitable boundary. They don't need to "pig out" before their scheduled diet.
Do you need to work on your willpower more than your resolutions?
