Every new year people all over the world sit down to make some New Year's Resolutions. For many of us, our enthusiasm to complete these goals tapers off after a week or two. We may even make the same goals year after year but still find ourselves back in more or less the same spot when New Year's rolls around again. They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, but I say that one of the purest definitions of hope is to keep trying new and different approaches to find the right solution to our goals. We should think of Resolutions as Re-Solutions. We've tried one way of reaching our goal. That didn't work. Now let's try a new way. Or even if we want to try the same solution again, it's been some time, we're a little older and a little wiser, who’s to say that it won't work out better this time. We may have in the past tried a dozen different diets or exercise programs or ways to quit smoking or drinking or budgets to get ourselves out of debt that did not work. Well, now is the perfect time for a Re-Solution - let's try one more way. Maybe we'll fail again. Given our track record, we probably will. But we can have hope that this time will be different. Just maybe, it will.
