10 Lies that Make Us Give Up on New Year’s Resolutions

How do you feel when you hear the phrase, New Year’s resolutions? Excited? Defeated? Skeptical? In recent years, New Year’s resolutions have gone out of style in favor of goals. The idea is that New Year’s resolutions are vague, so they don’t work—but goals are more defined with action steps, so they work.

I disagree with this philosophy.

What I’ve found in my own life is that neither one will work unless I go about it the right way. Before we get into that, though, let’s look at the difference...