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Create Change In 2024 With Intention
Ditch the NYE resolution to live the dream life
Have you ever created a NYE resolution whereby you successfully achieved a successful outcome? No? Me either!
It's taken me a bit to figure out the reason why resolutions don't work.
At a societal level, traditionally we have chosen resolutions to negate something unwanted in life. However, our modern culture understands so much more about psychology.
The Oxford Dictionary defines a resolution as a firm decision to do or not to do something and an intention as an aim or plan.
Why do resolutions suck the big one?
Resolutions are flawed for several reasons including:
- they are only mental thought that have connected to a negative default position — something you no longer want;
- they are based on something you desire in the future, rather than right now in the present;
- are often vague and have no delivery boundary in the future
- often based on a comparison you’ve made with something that someone else has or does;
- they lack room to amend or reconfigure the deliverable outcome, it’s all or failure;

