We make a lot of resolutions for ourselves. I will start jogging from tomorrow, I will spend less time in front of TV, I will complete my assignments on time, do some social service etc. You make a resolution, a promise that tomorrow would be a better day.
Lets take an example: Lets say that I decide to go for jogging from tomorrow morning regularly.The reasons can be different - health or simple matter of enjoying jogging in morning. I set up an alarm and maybe sleep early in anticipation of getting up on time.
The next morning the alarm rings and I check the time. Its a bit cold and its been sometime that I had not woken up that early. I can feel the warmth in my bed and maybe question the worth of going outside leaving a luxury of sleeping in such wonderful conditions. Maybe I decide not to go, because I feel that I can go out tomorrow and even jog extra to compensate. I wake up late and resolve stronger to wake up tomorrow.
I may sleep late the next night and when the alarm rings I simply shut it down and go back to sleep thinking I was awake late. This may continue for sometime, postponing it endlessly till a moment I get so frustrated that I abandon the idea altogether.
Lets take a different alternative - Say I hear the alarm, get ready and go for a walk. The MOMENT I am on the streets or the park jogging - enjoying the cool breeze, enjoying the fact that I did what I had decided, I know deep within myself that I would not have been this happier if I was in bed.
Many a times we take different resolutions, but do not fulfill or even try maybe because we are plain lazy or we look for a more appropriate time to plunge.
I once spoke about people being busy with their work and not being able to participate in something else with a manager in my office. I generally tend to be good with managers to whom I do not have to report to. He said a simple statement that made me smile - "You see I have been breathing all through my life and I know that if I stop, I will die. You see that I am very busy breathing. But does it mean that I will not do anything else because I am that busy".
We all have different reasons to not do things that we really want to do. But the moment we start doing it, we know that there was nothing else better.