The Resolution Revolution: A New Way To Keep Your Resolve

The Resolution Revolution: A New Way To Keep Your Resolve Throughout the Year

Like many of you, I was a master at making New Year’s resolutions. Keeping them, on the other hand, was another story entirely. I mean, really, how many times could I vow to lose ten pounds or re-read the classics? Resolutions made in January were invariably the stuff of memory by my birthday a week before Valentine’s Day.

Then I met Rachel, a colleague who quickly became a dear friend. Rachel is the kind of person that comes along once in a lifetime, if you’re lucky. She has a way of helping me look at things from a new perspective, an uncanny ability to find solutions by stripping problems of extraneous details and exposing the core of the dilemma. Like many good things in my life, Rachel came to me at a time when I was mature enough and open enough to embrace her unique gifts.

A few years ago, when Rachel and I were still new friends, she asked me in December what my New Year’s resolution would be. I told her I had a few, listing the usual suspects a smaller figure, a larger reading list. By then, Rachel knew me well enough to understand that I was simply going through the resolution motions, repeating a pattern that hadn’t served me well for decades.

That’s when Rachel explained