Forget Resolutions: Embrace a Yearly Mantra Instead

Samara's Sentiment-Filled Apartment Pin it I am awesome at sticking to New Year's resolutions. For about two weeks. Then my resolve softens followed by a predictable petering out of whatever habit I was trying to form, a short bout of self-recrimination and, finally, a return to the former status quo. So a few years ago I ditched the idea of resolutions and came up with something better...a mantra.