Did you know that January 17th is “National Ditch Your Resolutions Day”?  Yes, January 17^th has become known as one of the most common days for people to give up on their New Year’s resolutions. Can you believe that giving up on our resolutions is so common, that it has even earned its own National holiday day?!?

We can feel pretty certain that most people are not giving up on their resolutions because they’ve decided those goals are no longer important to them.  So why, if those goals were important enough to us 3-weeks ago to make a resolution and start down the path, do we give up on them so quickly?

It really comes down to the flawed nature of resolutions themselves.  Resolutions come with this expectation to be perfect.  We decide that from a specific day forward we will ALWAYS do the action, habit or behavior (or we will NEVER do it again).  

For us humans, these are impossible expectations to meet. It’s in our nature to...