7 Tips to Help You Keep your New Year’s Resolutions.
Now that we’ve reached the end of the second week of January, how are your New Year’s Resolutions going? Doing OK? Not so good? If you’re one who has stepped up to the challenge, here are seven suggestions that will tip the scales in favor of you continuing and succeeding. I’ve adapted the suggestions from one of my favorite writers, Rajesh Setty.
Here they are:
1. Don’t go it alone. Find accountability and support from other home schoolers, ideally in your locality. There are plenty of online forums in which you can find support too.
2. Make yourself available to help another home schooler succeed in their resolution. Be aware, though, that being in someone else’s business can get awkward.
3. Recognize that succeeding in keeping a resolution is hard work, not magic.
4. Recognize that knowing what to do is not the same as doing.
5. Avoid rigidity and keep your eyes on your goal as you move toward it. Life rarely works exactly as planned. Be flexible.
6. Avoid trying to succeed in your resolution by copying someone else’s style or behavior. Here’s what I mean. We’ve all left home school conventions inspired to be or homeschool like so and so. But the reality is, we don’t really know the speakers. We don’t see their life being lived out day to day. An easy mistake is to draw conclusions based on an incomplete picture.
7. Enjoy the process. Avoid the mindset that says, “I’ll only be happy when this happens, or when my resolution is realized.” Remember that you’re fulfilling a vocation that God has given you. In some cases, the outcomes of your actions are beyond your control anyway.
Thanks for reading!
Curt Bumcrot, MRE
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