February 12, 2009
Resolution
40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year. Among the top new years resolutions are weight loss, exercise, and quitting smoking. Also popular are resolutions dealing with better money management and debt reduction.
The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:
past the first week: 75%
past 2 weeks: 71%
after one month: 64%
after 6 months: 46%
While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions.
It's now February 12th, and we are well into 2009. If you've made a resolution for this year, statistically speaking, you've probably wavered in your conviction a bit! Dropping a resolution usually has one of two effects. Chances are, you either feel apathetic about this OR you might be feeling slightly depressed. OR, if you are like me, you never even made a resolution for 2009.
This weekend we are finishing up "In The Beginning" with a serious discussion on the fall in the garden and how that set up things for human nature. The truth is: we all sin. We resolve to live for the Lord, but somehow it seems that every day we continue to listen to the serpent and choose to separate ourselves from God. God's amazing promise in all of this can be found in one of my favorite passages of scripture, Lamentations 3:20-26.
"Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, 'The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.' The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."
We have hope in the cross of Jesus and we find grace at the feet of our Lord. May this hope bring you great joy this week. Resolve today and throughout this year to remember that his compassions NEVER fail... that they are new every morning.
See you this weekend! - Ginger
Statistics from proactivechange.com.
Photo from flickr.
The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:
past the first week: 75%
past 2 weeks: 71%
after one month: 64%
after 6 months: 46%
While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions.
It's now February 12th, and we are well into 2009. If you've made a resolution for this year, statistically speaking, you've probably wavered in your conviction a bit! Dropping a resolution usually has one of two effects. Chances are, you either feel apathetic about this OR you might be feeling slightly depressed. OR, if you are like me, you never even made a resolution for 2009.
This weekend we are finishing up "In The Beginning" with a serious discussion on the fall in the garden and how that set up things for human nature. The truth is: we all sin. We resolve to live for the Lord, but somehow it seems that every day we continue to listen to the serpent and choose to separate ourselves from God. God's amazing promise in all of this can be found in one of my favorite passages of scripture, Lamentations 3:20-26.
"Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, 'The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.' The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."
We have hope in the cross of Jesus and we find grace at the feet of our Lord. May this hope bring you great joy this week. Resolve today and throughout this year to remember that his compassions NEVER fail... that they are new every morning.
See you this weekend! - Ginger
Statistics from proactivechange.com.
Photo from flickr.
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