A New Year’s Revolution

This is the time of year many of us swear off old habits and swear in new replacement behaviors we know we need to help us clean up our acts.

For many years, my resolution has been the same: to be more patient.

While many readers and colleagues probably view me as a patient and kind person, that’s been my public persona. In the flesh, on a day-to-day basis, I have, for years, suffered from a lack of patience and irritability. I’m conquering those demons with the help of my children and my partner and students — and a lot of self determination. While I still suffer bouts of impatience, I’m well on the path to being the person I want to be.

But that’s beside the point. What I’d like to talk about today is replacing the typical new year’s resolution with a new year’s revolution — an extreme makeover of the self.

I propose that all of my readers who are aspiring to create a new, more comfortable, more successful, more loving, and more patient self join me this year in revolutionizing who you are — transforming yourself for the better.

Over the coming year, I’ll present many new ideas, one per week, if all goes well. That’s 52 ideas in all, that could help you become the person who you have always dreamed of being. My intent in all of this is this: It’s never too late to be who you might have been.