Is "Healthy" Your New Year's Resolution? Sample

How to Stick With A Plan

It’s that time of year again – New Year’s resolution time. Do resolutions work? There’s a lot of debate about that. 

I’m not sure I even believe in New Year’s resolutions. I mean, for the most part, it seems like we only remember them for about a month!  The intention is usually good, but our resolutions don’t usually end up changing our lives. Most of us would be hard pressed in August to even remember what our New Year’s resolutions were.  

But the idea is good. The reason we make these resolutions year after year is because it’s a chance to start fresh, aim for a new goal, make a new plan. It’s a chance to make things better.  

So I looked up the meaning of resolution in the dictionary, and the idea started sounding pretty good to me. 

The word resolute means: “Marked by firm determination, bold, steady.”  One definition of resolution is: “The act of determining.” 

So a resolution is less a goal than it is a determination.  And it’s bold and steady – in other words, it keeps you on track to make it through to the completion. The only way I know to truly follow through with a determination – to stick with a plan – is to renew our minds to the Word of God.