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Thats my disclaimer

Imma fitting to rant right now, so it may get harsh in some areas.

 

 

But seriously, every year you hear it, resolutions to stop drinking, stop smoking, get in the gym, eat better, lose wieght, or even spiritual resolutions, get closer to God, advance your spiritual walk.  Unfortunately, the spiritual resolutions, or goals, usually suffer the same fate as the health and weight related resolutions: they work for january, maybe february, if you are lucky you get into march, then at some point before the summer hits, the resolution goes flying out the window.  Dont act like you dont know what im talkin about, you have done it, dont be ashamed either, we all have, i have definitely done it, and many times at that.  I wont even bother to get into why resolutions fail.  Rather I have decided to just say what i think and feel and let it be.

As the new year approached i started hearing the usual buzz around the christmas dinner table, the watch night services, candle lighting services-the buzz of this is/these are my new year resolutions. I thought to myself, im not bothering with that this year, it usually profits me nothing, but disappointment when i realised that the same resolutions i had the last year i have again this year.  So i went all "ba hambug" (if that relates) on the whole resolution thing.  But it started to bother me, because there are things that i want to change and goals i want to accomplish.  So i decided to think about how i could change my "resolutions" so that i actually accomplish them and stick with them, forever.  And i realised that was the problem, resolutions seem so limited.  Think about when you resolve a problem.  You may resolve a situation, but it can come up again, and again, and again even.  So i realised the problem starts with the word itself, it limits your thinking.  You say okay this year i want to do this, and if you dont accomplish it you just set the same "resolution" next year.  So i thought about what i would want my "resolutions" to be.  They are: to get more serious about my schoolwork, get back in the gym and stick it out for the real long haul this time, and to get closer to God and experience substantial spiritual growth, continually.  So what i realised in realising what i wanted to accomplish, is that these are not just goals for the year, these are goals that will change my life, and are positive things that should be continual.  That is when i realised why not, instead of making new years resolutions, make life changing revolutions.  Rather than putting it in a box of a new year resolution, make a well thought out decision to make a change in your life, forever.  A revoltion within yourself.  So that is what i have done, i have made decisions to revolutionize who i am, rather than resolve to do things in my life.  What i have done to achieve this is in the terms of my schoolwork, develop a schedule so intense and take a course load so deep that i have no choice but to follow the schedule, really put my back into it and the blessed work done.  In terms of my gymming, i found a gym partner that is equally and probable more intense, motivated, and able to understand the differences between he and I.  And for my spiritual revolutions I need to pray and fast more, get deeper into His word, rely more on His voice than my own thinking.  So like i said, dont make this a year filled with unfulfilled resolutions, rather make it the start of a revolution within yourself, a conscious decision to make a definitive change in your life.  So stop making new years resolutions and start making life-changing revolutions.