Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
Jim Rohn: Author and motivational speaker
A few days into the New Year and by now most people have stated their New Year resolutions. I did not get mine done for the date, but I have them now.
But what are resolutions? They are basically decisions we take in order to achieve something. What makes them different from goals is that they are vague, like “I will drop those extra pounds”, “I will quit smoking”, and “I will look for a new job”. Resolutions stand by themselves, often without any connection to our larger desires and goals.
Goals are definite with quantity and date, when it will be achieved. They must be declared out loud, to friends, family or your journal. They are the stepping stones on our path to a greater dream or vision.
There are some sad facts about resolutions. Ask your friends and family, if they wrote them down. Only about 20 percent will bother to write down their goals for the New Year. And of those who do record their goals, only about 20 percent of them will reach them. Yes, only 4 out of 100 people have the plan combined with the discipline to accomplish what they set out to do.
It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Actually for many years past I stopped making resolutions, because I never kept them. What’s the point in promising myself something, and then year after year breaking it. It did not do much for my self-respect.
But this year I made two resolutions:
To let my light shine out through my Gift of Light; that no negative feeling about myself shall stop me
To take action every day to achieve at least one goal
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Chares DeLint
Birte Edwards
I would love to hear how you do with your resolutions? Leave a comment or question or even state your resolutions. You will find the place to write after tags.
