Good Intentions

Statistics show that people will forget their New Year’s Resolutions within six weeks of the originating date.  And for people over 55, we forget the resolutions on the originating date!

I think that everyone has good intentions because most of us want to be at our very best and continually improve ourselves.  Good intentions are not really goals.  They are just clever thoughts that make us feel like we have control of ourselves and over our habitual poor choices.  

Why do we forget the good intentions?  It’s simple. We are strongly driven by our senses and emotions.  Take dieters’ good intentions.  To them, food just smells and tastes too good to try to start losing weight today.  Tomorrow sounds better.  Dieters deserve to receive comfort from delicious food when they are: stressed, exuberant, sad, isolated, at a party, worried, jolly, jinxed, lonely, in control, determined, happy go lucky, losing it, nervous, starting a new project, failing…  Oh, you get my point! 

Breaking a good intention is easy because we do not experience immediate consequences.  We are all experts of screwing up our good intentions!  Try to set one good intention for 2012 and stick to it!