I like just about everything.

But there is one thing I truly hate.

I actually despise them.

What are they?

New Year’s Resolutions.

Yes, I admit, I hate New Year’s Resolutions. I hate them so much, I cringe and curse under my breath when people talk about them.

Why?

It’s simple.

New Year’s Resolutions are a fool’s way to make lasting change.

They’re a cheap way to have others hold you accountable for what you’d like to accomplish.

They’re a half-hearted attempt at getting real tangible results in your health, your life, and your relationships.

And lastly, they make people look like failures.

Hardly a great combination of winning qualities.

I’ve done some research about how many people keep their New Year’s resolutions and it seems like the researchers have targeted anywhere from 63% to less than 1 out of 10–talk about pin-point accuracy!

I’m not a pessimist, but I’d lean toward the low side, considering the percentage of people who lose weight and then gain it back is anywhere from 90-98%. (You have to take into account the number of people who actually lie when taking surveys or doing just about anything else… which is 2.92 times in 10 minutes according to a UMass study! And that’s the number of people who admitted to lying!)

Apparently, I’m not the only one… who thinks weakly of setting a new habit on the 1st…

Here’s what Mark Twain had to say:

“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”

So what can you do to avoid being a failed-New-Year’s-Resolution statistic in 2008. These are specific topics taken from my New “7 Steps to Optimum Health Program.” which you can look at by clicking here – http://www.liveawesome.com/health.

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #1

Set your intentions. To make this New Year’s Resolution last, you have to be very clear about your intentions. You have to set them with specifics as well as figure out why you really want to achieve them. It’s not enough to say “I want to eat more raw food and less animals.” You have to know why you want to do it. Is it to live better? Feel better? Be better?

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #2

Learn to fail graciously. We’re not perfect beings. Never were. So here’s the deal. You have to accept that you’re going to waiver a bit along the path. Most of us stop when the going gets tougher and revert to our old patterns. If you want to succeed with your New Year’s Resolution this year, know that you might fall off track a bit along the way. If you do, pick yourself back up and keep going. There’s never a straight line between point A and point B. Enjoy the ride.

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #3

Clean out your gut and keep your immune system in top condition. You may think this doesn’t have much to do with New Year’s Resolutions, but it surely does. You have to be clean physically to make good decisions. Does alcohol impare your thoughts? Of course it does. What about processed sugar or soda or a piece of kale. If alcohol can change the way you operate, so can those other foods. If you’re not clean on the inside, then you’re thoughts will be impure and lead you down the wrong path. Gut and immune system cleansing and maintenance are the first places to start even before you change the way you eat!

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #4

Learn the program for your own body type. Don’t just jump into any fitness or wellness program without knowing your body type. They are plenty of things you can do to improve or master your health and wellness, but without knowing if you run hot or cold or in between you could find yourself down the wrong path.

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #5

Learn how to deal with pitfalls. If you already know how to deal with the ups and downs of a healthy diet and fitness program… you’re going to know what to do when the hard times hit.

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #6

Create a wellness toolbox. This is simply a place where you can go for options. A wellness toolbox has ideas and items that will help you make decisions when you have little time or little mind capacity left (due to stress, work or anything else that drains you). This can be an idea file or even a physical box where you keep recipes or workouts or things that inspire you.

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Step #7

Know how you make decisions and know your personality type. I’ve identified 3 types of personalities when it comes to health and fitness and just about anything else. These are the caretaker, the go-getter and the researcher. Each one has specific qualities that helps them make good or bad decisions. If you know which one you are the better off you are keeing your New Year’s Resolution.

Armed with these ideas and thoughts, I guarantee you’ll get better results. If you want a more detailed approach, hurry over to www.liveawesome.com/health for a special deal on my new program… I’m giving everyone a special deal which includes bonuses that add up to 20 hours of great health information! The offer is only good until the 3rd of January, because I want to get it in your hands so you can use it and finally stop worrying or thinking too much about what is the right path for you.

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And please pass this along to your friends, family members and co-workers who have failed at their New Year’s Resolutions in the past. With this information, this might finally be the year they succeed!