NYRs (New Year's Resolutions) fail too frequently for two main reasons. First, we so often spout wants without placing much time, thought, care, reflection, or worry into how to change. In some cases, we do not recognize that change is necessary. Not only must one dig deep into how to resolve, one must come to the core of what is wrong. You cannot fix until you have identified what is broken. This should be a deep soul-searching process, as answers to the questions of why often lead to other and deeper question of why which begs more answers...peeling back the layers of the onion.
The second reason for failed NYRs is lack of execution--not lack of planning, but of execution. We plan or intend to change our habits, but then life proceeds and we conveniently forget the promise we made to ourselves at the beginning of the year. It's important to write down resolutions, to ask yourself the hard questions, to find the answers, to plan change, and to execute change. Intentions are meaningless.
Well, now that it is 11 days into the new year, I can confidently say I have my resolutions. I dug deep to reveal the whys behind my human behavior, and have created a monthly action plan. They are written in my journal. Perhaps as the year progresses and as I make progress against these resolutions, I will reveal them.
What I will share are song lyrics I happened upon shortly after the New Year. The lyrics express everything I want to do/experience not just this year, but in the years that lay ahead. Written and arranged by Brendan James.
All I Can See
I want to walk through this doorway
I want to open my mind
I want to pledge my allegiance to
all I can find
I want a car that will crash through the barrier
to a road no one knows
I want to feel less control more abandon
I want to land far from home
So if I can I'll learn to journey and return to never rest til I've seen all I can see
I want to learn a completely new language, one I don't understand
I want to help someone lost someone helpless with strength of my hands
I want to come to the base of a statue built before they counted the years
And there I'll fall with my face in my hands and cry and feel their hope in my tears
(chorus)
Train rides and pastures colliding, colors and customs I've never seen
I know I, yes I know I, I will stumble but
time is precious my friend
For those who journey can easily understand the more they see the more they'll
learn, the more that they can be
So this I swear to you, and this I swear to me
I'll never rest 'til I've seen all I can see
No I'll never rest 'til I've seen all I can see
I want to know where the strength of a person lies, in their past or their future
Is it in the way that they hurt or they love themselves, or is it all an illusion
I want to crawl from this skin that I'm painted in body please let it give
I want to find the creator of all good things and ask what means to live
