How many New Years resolutions did you make last year?

How many of those resolutions did you keep?

Don't feel too bad if you found your resolutions falling by the wayside long before you stop writing last years dates on your checks, it is estimated that over 75% of Americans break their resolutions within the first week.

There are a lot of great intentions out there, but intention and action are two entirely different things. We all know we should take better care of ourselves, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, romantically...

We know, but there is a wide gap between knowing something and doing it isn't there? Over 90% of people will break their New Years resolutions long before the new month rolls into double digits.

For most of us resolutions seem to get lost in the translation from thought to action.

Even when we have decided to make a goal to better our lives in one way or another, we lack the follow through, and the follow through is what really makes the pattern take shape.

So often when we make a goal, we see each failure as a setback, but failure too is part of that cycle.

How many times you failed to reach your goal isn't nearly as important as how many times you got back on track and followed it through.

Imagine you find yourself at a lakeside cabin, and your goal is to create a new path from the cabin to the lake. Making the trip once is not enough to leave a permanent path, the same actions must be repeated over and over to wear that path deep enough and wide enough to be of practical use.

Our failures, no matter how many there are do not have any effect whatsoever upon that path, they do not help to move progress farther, but they do not stop progress entirely either unless we let them. If we miss a day or even a week or two our path is there patiently waiting for us to being working on it again.

So many people fail to get back on that path and move towards their goal once again, instead telling themselves that all hope is lost so they might as well give up entirely. Accepting defeat is the surest way to fail in any goal, no matter how small or large that goal may be, when we count only our failures we fail to see our successes.

Count your successes not your failures, and just keep walking your path.

Happy New Year everyone!!!