Are you planning on making any new resolutions this upcoming year? If you're like me, you don't always keep the ones you made the previous year anyway. However, did you now that 40 to 45% of American adults make one or more resolutions each year? Some of the most popular resolutions deal with exercise, weight loss, money management, and stopping smoking or drinking.Out of the studies that have been made regarding following through with resolutions, researchers have concluded that 75% keep them past the first week, 71% keep them past two weeks, 64% after one month, and 46% after six months.
While a lot of people who make new years resolutions 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.
So my question is what are your New Years Resolutions if you decide to make some this year? Outside of your regular ones, I challenge you to make one that deals with your church. Here are a few you may want to pick from:
(1) Bring 4 new people to church this year.
(2) Attend a Bible study.
(3) Volunteer for VBS or other youth/children events.
(4) Tithe regularly
(5) Pray weekly for your pastor and the church leadership
I'll try and come up with about five resolutions for myself to work on and publish soon. Hopefully your resolutions can help me articulate my own more clearly! Anyway, Happy upcoming New Year!
