Resolution to Resolve!

The Resolution to Resolve 

I wanted to follow-up from yesterday's post about New Year's Resolutions.  You can make a resolution any time during the year.  What's so special about January 1st?  Maybe that's just another way to start afresh. But what we have learned is that chance of success in any resolution depends on who you include in it.  Richard Wiseman at the University of Bristol studied 3000 participants and found that 88% failed in their resolutions.  The number dramatically increased as they made the resolve to take just one step--a one time step toward change which involved somebody else.  Then work out the plan for change with that person or persons.  Invest money and your chances go higher. Invest a professional who will follow you -- better still.  But you get the idea.  Look at the picture above. It may be a huddle of some sort--or a circle of friends--but they are going some place together.  Or for at least one moment they are tapped into each other.