happy new year...again...

2010 started out really great.  I was very excited about my New Year's resolutions, and making some really great changes.  Then, February hit.  I was in jury duty for a week and a half, then out of town for a conference for five days, then went to OKC to visit family for a few days.  Most of the changes I had made seemed to slip away.  My excitement about things is still there, though it is muted by the lack of forward momentum and the general feeling of almost-failure as I have to admit that the changes I had put in place are no longer there.  I am tempted to just give up and throw in the towel.  It's probably hopeless...I'm never going to change, anyhow.  Anyone relate?  (Melancholys unite!)

I have always heard that if you want to change something, you just have to do that new something for six weeks, and it will become a habit.  I got four weeks in, and then ka-blooie...

However, I don't want to go down this way.  I refuse to be mastered by anything other than God, and I'm not going to be such an easy target. 

Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!   Hebrews 12:1-3 (MSG)

So, I have decided that March 1st is going to be my second New Year's Day, and I'm starting the six week time clock all over again!  I am determined that it is going to work, even if I have to celebrate New Year's Day several times over this year. 

How are your New Year's Resolutions going?  Anyone want to join me in starting over?