If you've made a New Year's resolution, your plot for self-improvement probably kicks into gear sometime on Jan. 1. Here's how an 'old year's resolution' can help you follow through.
We call it the"old year's resolution."
First, if you lack the confidence to invest in a full-fledged effort, failure to achieve the goal may become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Furthermore, if you maintain the change but perceive progress as unacceptably slow or inadequate, you may abandon the effort. However, if people perceive failure as a definitive sign that they are not capable — or even deserving — of success, failure can lead to surrender." can result, which means you're likely to abandon the endeavor altogether.
When he was still a young man, Franklin came up with what he called his"bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection." With charming confidence, he set out to master 13 virtues, including temperance, frugality, chastity, industry, order and humility. Benjamin Franklin recorded his slip-ups over the course of a week. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical GardensHe made his progress visible in a book, where he recorded his slip-ups. — perhaps only a hypothetical example — shows 16 of them tied to"temperance" in a single week.
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