Note from the Editor
It's January and I imagine many people are soon going to be faced with the reality of another long list of New Year's resolutions fallen by the wayside. It's common for New Year's resolutions to be the most frequently broken promises people make each year.
So why do we keep making these resolutions if we know from past experience that we're more than likely going to fail?
Well, the start of a new year always seems to be a good time to reevaluate our lives and decide what's working and what's not in our day to day experience. I believe this truly is a good time of year to make changes since we're usually motivated to start a new year out properly -- wipe the slate clean and begin anew. Rather than making further resolutions that we'll just wind up breaking, let's think seriously about the role of habits in our daily lives. Habits are stronger than our personal resolutions, so if we set about exchanging our bad habits with good ones, we just might stumble upon the key to making New Year's changes that will last!
This month's article has a special guest contributor, Catherine Levison, who'll be sharing with us ways to establish good habits in ourselves and our children. These ideas can be applied to almost any area of our lives: financial responsibilities, health-related lifestyle changes, household chores, work habits, educational endeavors, etc.
Happy New Year!
~Debi
(Deborah Taylor-Hough)
Contributing Editor -- Debt-Free Family at Suite101.com
Editor, Simple Times Ezine, mailto:subscribe-simple-times@xc.org
THE POWER OF HABIT
Copyright 2000/2001 Catherine Levison
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
New year, new century, new millennium and -- of course -- new resolutions.
As we all know, New Year's resolutions are notorious for being broken almost as soon as they're made. Ordinarily, no one would make an attempt to improve an area of their life only to turn around and fall right back into their old patterns.
The power of habit is the key to success when it comes to changing anything. Even though every change usually starts with a conscious decision, nothing will really by altered simply by identifying a problem. To succeed you need some follow through. Will power does play a role but habit is far more powerful and can be easily put into play even in the place of self determination.
