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I think that resolutions made in the absence of some externally life-altering event are basically hard to follow through on. We human beings just aren't very good at keeping our word over time, you know?
It's something I've really gone to work at over the last several years, being able to say something shall be, and then by god have it be that way.
I've been a non-smoker for over three years, because I said I would be. There wasn't an incident that made me sit down and reconsider my smoking (a pack a day, at the time). I just said I was going to quit, and I quit. Of course, it wasn't quite that simple--it was months and months of struggling with myself and beating back my urges and habits. But it was all inside of having given my word to the way it was going to go.
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