I will make a resolution today that I actually have a shot at keeping. A day at a time, I will move towards my goal, celebrating each small gain in good feeling about myself and my life, feeling enhanced from within that I am able to keep it in my line of vision. I will keep my resolution for another 24 hours, for one more day and congratulate myself for doing so. I will understand that if I slip in my resolve on one day, I will not waste my valuable time beating myself up. I will simply climb right back on the moment I become aware of it, and have that good feeling of knowing that I can make mistakes, lots of them, and they won’t stop me or discourage me. Just for today I will approach my resolution with an attitude of gratitude, happy that I have the wisdom, purpose and inner strength to see it at all; feeling grateful that I have the clarity and will to take that very crucial, next step. Because just for today, I know that it’s the next step that really counts.

I walk through my year one grateful step at a time

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoym Lincoln