Here is how to make your New Year resolutions work

Every beginning of the year, people the world over commit to some form of New Year resolutions. By definition, to be resolute is to be fixed in determination or purpose. Resolutions are therefore not flimsy wishful thinking, but firm commitments with a purpose. The reason many resolutions suffer infant mortality is most likely because they are neither born in serious consideration nor founded on unwavering determination to succeed.

One category of people who readily make New Year resolutions are those conscious of living in bondage — usually of bad or sinful habits, attitudes, or addictions. This may include habitual liars, chronic latecomers, drug addicts, smokers, or alcoholics. Others may be sexual perverts, the corrupt, or tribalists. Such people often have a deep desire to break their bad habits or attitudes, and as a New Year comes, they promise themselves, their friends, and loved ones that they are departing from their former ways. Unfortunately, many end up frustrated, and at times devastated due to resolutions that never materialised.