Historically, New Year’s day has prompted scores of enthusiastic individuals to make resolutions. Sadly, resolutions often disappear from mind before the New Year Eve’s party favors have been thrown away.

Why do so many resolutions fail? There could be many reasons, but often resolutions are made in haste with little or no physical, emotional, or spiritual preparation. People often make resolutions without any real commitment to the words behind them. Perhaps, unconsciously, we believe that the dropping of the ball on New Year’s eve possesses enough magic to make all our resolutions come true.

A failed resolution is like an empty promise–like an opportunity missed–like a vow broken. If you have entered into 2010 having proclaimed one or more resolutions, you may benefit from asking yourself these questions:

1. Does the resolution I made realistically have a chance of succeeding?
2. Do I need to make any changes in my life, mind, or emotions that will help me to fulfill my resolution(s)?
3. Did I make the resolution through my own choice–or did someone talk me into it?
4. Do I sincerely want to succeed in fulfilling my resolutions?
5. Am I putting real effort into making my resolutions stick?

If you truly want your resolutions to last, reconfirm them in your mind (approximately once a day) and take positive action toward their fulfillment repeatedly, until they come to fruition.

You may also find it helpful to study what the word resolution means. To that end, I looked it up in the dictionary and I also ran the word “resolution” through my computer’s thesaurus. According to the thesaurus, the word resolution is interchangeable with any of the following words: vow; affirmation; promise; commitment; intention; pray; aim; resolve; declaration; plan; and pledge.

As I read the list of synonyms for resolution, a deeper understanding of the word emerged from my mind. It occurred to me that when we become aware that the word resolution embodies all the meanings that follow, we will put more effort into making our resolutions stick. Sonoyms for Resolutions: affirmation; promise; commitment; intention; pray; aim; resolve; declaration; plan; and pledge.

If you have made New Year’s Resolutions this year, consider the power that the words capitalized below–which are all sonoymous with the word resolution–have when used as part of an affirmations:

• I VOW to manifest remarkable, lasting change.
• Through PRAYER, I empower myself to change magnificently.
• I COMMIT myself to create stunning change.
• I PLEDGE all that I am to gifting myself the power to change.
• Through my INTENTIONS and productive actions, I fulfill my resolutions.

Whenever you view the word RESOLUTION as seriously as you view its synonyms, it becomes easier to achieve your resolutions. View resolutions as your own set of vows, affirmations, pledges, and commitments. When you read your resolutions to yourself daily–just as you would an affirmation or mantra–they are powerfully accepted by your subconscious mind. The affect becomes hypnotic

When you repeat your resolutions to yourself while your mind is relaxed, you enter into a powerful state of hypnosis. You may know that: HYPNOSIS + RESOLUTIONS = SUCCESS.