Resolution 2014

Another new year…..and more resolutions: With renewed hope. A fresh start again looms. That in itself provides impetus. That is the nature of being human. To never give up: Even if that resolution lasts only for a while…. At least the desire to move forwards is there. Yet what is it that cause blip again and again? Is there any way one may avoid it? Why is there always failure? Why is it that only the few are achievers? Whilst the rest simply are caught up in that web of never ending start to never really get going? Why is it that we lack that resilience of the few? Covey may state in this connection that perhaps we never begin with the end in mind or rarely we feel, touch and taste that desire, as I have previously remarked. Or, all that is done is simply verbal or at best intellectual or lacking that cutting edge? However, the next time like now when we seek that new resolution, perhaps the call may be to build up and nurture that intense desire and or try actually having that core of belief and desire rather than merely verbally or mentally which in turn may yield to achievement.
Getting back to the New Year ahead: As I stated, one needs a motivation. Any new thing brings in motivation….From acquiring the simplest of things to welcoming other ‘changes’ provides an impetus to move forward. One feels good about it. Hence anything from a gifted new book, to having a ‘new other‘, any other synergises oneself. The turn of the New Year again brings that added hope. To have that initial forging ahead itself is to be commended. What one needs is that feeling past mere verbosity! Or we may say how serious is one? Or is it just a routine thing that one does annually? What do you think?
Naturally, it is also equally vital that we take stock of the ‘current’ year, which will have passed by the time this reaches readership which again provided a similar being of surging forth wards. More about the kind of questions which we may want to set up as a defining tone of success/ measurable goal to move forwards.
To put the New Year in perspective, one needs to be on guard and ensures that resolutions are maintained fully. In the past years, the notorious ‘I ‘have failed in doing so, in spite of having the best intention. Close ones to us, often would be our most severe critics, or await a slip up to then remark sometimes with sarcasm ‘I knew it. It would only last either momentarily, or simply a few weeks.’ Similar comments often cause doubt even within oneself as if deep down, we are somehow moving towards failure in spite of our initial effort.
That brings us to pose some questions: Is there any way whereby we may move on from that stagnation mode where there is self-doubt? How to move forward and forward rather than be halted a few days weeks or months into the new year? I have already hinted at Covey’s dictum that we should begin with the end in mind in the form of repeating again what has been clearly stated that perhaps one way of addressing and or making sense of the issues is to really feel, touch and taste what really should be a resolution taken not lightly but with clear idea or else it is all just paying lip service with no real belief. Of course, ‘I’ start every new resolution with equal vigour. Or do ‘I’? Good luck and pray accept all my good wishes towards your lone journey.