We are two weeks into the new year.  How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions?  Are you celebrating that you’ve gone two weeks without any soft drinks or sweets?  Have you maintained that routine of crawling out of bed, lacing up your running shoes, and hitting the treadmill or pavement?  Did you set up your bank account with an automatic transfer so that you could finally start saving money instead of spending every dollar from your paycheck?

What changes have you already noticed?  Do you feel better about yourself?  Have you lost a pound or two?

The next few weeks will determine whether these new resolutions will mark who you are becoming or if they will reveal that once again, January 1 resolutions rarely stick around come February and March.  For a new way of life to stick, the practices you are putting into place will have to last long enough to become new habits.  

While dieting and exercise are important in creating the new you, did you consider addressing any heart habits?  I’ve come to realize the importance of heart change as the basis for any other changes in my life.