It’s almost 2011 and everyone is talking about New Year’s Resolutions.  For each of us, 2010 represented a variety experiences and ways of being.  Some things we like about ourselves, but typically there is something we want to improve upon.  So, we look to the next year as a fresh start, a time to bring in a new habit pattern and make it stick.  Sometimes it does, but often it doesn’t.  Visit a gym the first week in January, then again in April.  You’ll find in January it’s packed but after a few months pass, invariably those New Year’s Resolutions about going to the gym fade away and life goes back to the way it was in 2010.  Why is that? (more…)