If your resolutions list looks like mine, it is fossilized as well. Since they are always the same resolutions you don’t need to write them out every year – you just keep them in a folder – where they have been for the last centuries….. (photo is of art by Steve Tilden – thank you for letting me use it for a joke, comrade!)

Just in time comes yet another psychological tool kit that promises more success for this round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpbCMzQqZAU

This is the scientist behind the program called WOOP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mobxikaYgU

WOOP stands for: Wish/Outcome/Obstacle/Plan.  The claim is that envisioning the positive alone is worse than anticipating obstacles for which to plan. Why not give it a try since everything else has failed? I’ll report back by the end of this year…..hah!

Here are some of my obstacles that no plan whatsoever overcomes:

Being a chicken   

being a chicken trying to differentiate between realistic fear and paranoia,

 

bing a chicken forever pursuing the lofty goal of abstract thinking while scared,   

 

and being a chicken who is hooked on c h o c o l a t e (or salty licorice, caramels, marshmallows, bonbons of all kinds except jelly beans….)