New Year Resolutions!
The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally, at least, most of us compile formidable lists of do's and dont's. The same old favourites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity. We resolve to get up earlier each morning, eat less, smoke less, find more time to play with the children, do a thousand and one jobs about the house, be nice to people we don't like, drive carefully and walk the dog every day ! Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain inveterate smokers, or stick to an unhealthy eating pattern, it is only because we have so often experienced the frustration that results from failure. Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our bad old ways. Aware of these pitfalls...