It is coming time to start making our New Year’s Resolution. Every year, we make promises to ourselves like to Eat Nourishing food all year, go on a diet, lose twenty pounds, or read through the entire bible. Year after year we start those resolutions at full speed. We work hard to accomplish them. Every day we get up and eat right, exercise, read our Bible, or whatever we are going to do and we do it. We think this year, I am actually going to make. I am actually going to make these changes in my life for the whole year.
After about a week of loyalty to our goal, we begin to reason with ourselves why it was o.k. To skip just this one day. Then we feel guilty for slipping up and we try again. Eventually we get to the point where there is no more reasoning with ourselves, there is no more feeling guilty, there is no more using gaps diet recipes, no more dieting, no more reading through the Bible, and no longer a New Year’s Resolution. This process continues year after year. We try to change then we go back into our same old ritualistic routines.
I find that every year I want to get through the entire Bible just like I would read a book, but with the pressures of parenthood, the responsibilities of a wife, and the obligations of work, I just give up. Why do we do this? Well the main reason is that we don’t set small goals for ourselves. We try to accomplish this huge goal and we overwhelm ourselves. Instead we need to make a short term goal like I’m going to exercise once a week instead of everyday, or I’m going to read through half the Bible in a year instead of all of it. If we start with smaller goals, we will be able to accomplish them much easier.