New Year’s Resolutions: Don’t Do It (Alone)

I’m blogging over at Quid Pro Quills today about New Year’s Resolutions and why they so often fail. Here’s an excerpt:

We’re two weeks into the new year. How are you doing on those resolutions? Like many of us, I made some resolutions a few weeks ago. As I was considering the few successes and many failures of years past, something occurred to me. Maybe this is obvious to you, but it felt like an epiphany to me.

I can’t change my own heart. I might be able to affect my behavior sometimes, with the right motivation, but I can’t change my heart. And until I achieve true heart-change, those bad behaviors aren’t going away.

Read the rest at Quid Pro Quills.