Why not replace the annual rite of a Resolution by making a New Year’s DEFINITION?
The rite of making an annual resolution would work much better if we simply chose to replace it with a “New Year’s Definition”. It is excruciatingly difficult to break bad habits or alter deep seated behavioral scripts. And that is almost exclusively what resolutions target – lose or gain weight (eat less or more); save money (spend less and/or make more); get fit (stop natural laziness and exercise regularly); drink less alcohol; quit smoking; stop stressing, etc. Maybe that is why the failure rate for resolutions is so obscenely high. Resolutions after all typically focus on the hardest-to-change goals – changing our deeply ingrained bad habits. Possibly that is why less than one-half of us even bother with New Year’s Resolutions and only twelve percent of those who do so actually achieve their goal. That is about a one out of twenty success ratio at best. If the choice was a “New Year’s Definition” in its place, it would be much easier to realistically pursue and then achieve self-i
