New Year`s Resolutions

...are bound to fail. You make a "promise" to yourself to do that or the other. However you try to change the effect by neglecting the cause. The cause is who you are and not what you do. You cannot get different results by being the same person you were until now. You cannot do different things when your subconscious is still conditioned by your old perks.
Want to change your life in the year to come? Then I suggest you first drastically change who you are.

For example let`s take one case. He`s been searching for oneness and enlightenment for a while now. Every path he took seemed promising in the beginning but in the end didn`t bring him any "tangible" results. That was what he asked for - results. However results are the award of the logical mind. You can ask for results when you start a business or learn a profession.

Results are the product of the material world. The thing he was looking for was not. The "awards" for his immaterial journey could not be material. They cannot be quantified in this plane. Maybe they can be quantified in another dimension, but not here.

Looking for "tangible" result here means only that his spiritual journey was not 100% spiritual after all. Maybe it was hiding some social aspirations as well, like getting smarter or richer. He wanted the best of both worlds and in the end he didn`t get very far. He was attending the effects while all this time the cause was neglected.

But that is just a case. Most new year`s resolutions are about getting to be more successful or thinner, once again using the same means and hoping to arrive to different end results. Somebody once said this is crazy and he was right. You might win a few battles but the war will be won by who and what you are and all your temporary victories will vanish if you don`t respect this simple rule. It`s all about cause and effect. Attend the cause first and you won`t even have to bother with the effects anymore. They will improve by themselves.