The Secret to Sticking to a New Year's Resolution

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

So you felt a strong wave of inspiration and became determined to make a New Year’s resolution. Great. Now what? In this episode, Fr. Mike teaches how to strike a balance between great change and manageable consistency, so you can tackle that resolution with determination and wisdom. By starting with small steps and plotting a course of action, you will experience what it means to be faithful and become who God is calling you to be by the end of the year.

Fr. Mike is also a presenter in these faith formation programs from Ascension:

Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God (http://bit.ly/2rdOFy7)
Chosen: This is Your Catholic Faith (http://bit.ly/2r32vUK)
Altaration: The Mystery of the Mass Revealed (http://bit.ly/2rIYjfE)
YOU: Life, Love and the Theology of the Body (http://bit.ly/2nKLug5)

Get 18 of Fr. Mike’s best Ascension Presents videos in this exclusive DVD from Ascension:
Ascension Presents … Fr. Mike Schmitz (http://bit.ly/2sKUnJN)

Fr. Mike spoke at the Ascension Cafe during the World Meeting of Families. Watch him and other speakers get fired up over the gospel in the Ascension Cafe DVD (http://bit.ly/2sYtQaW).

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0:00.0	Malinuja!
0:05.6	My name is Frother Makeshmins and this is Ascension Presents.
0:08.2	So, whenever it comes to the New Year, I get so excited.
0:13.5	I get excited because it's kind of one of those moments where people globally, universally,
0:20.0	all across the land are interested in change.
0:23.8	I love that because that's one of the things that as human beings, we're made for more,
0:30.8	but we don't always choose more.
0:33.4	So it's one of those times where we can get inspired.
0:36.4	Speaking of inspiration, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, I was still.
0:41.9	When I was a kid, I loved, as a grown man, I still continue to love the Rocky movies.
0:49.4	They figured out, by Rocky 2, they figured out the number one thing about the Rocky movies
0:55.8	is the training montage.
0:57.6	Honestly, they got it down to such a science that in Rocky 4, where you thought, Evangeligo,
1:04.1	you should watch this.
1:06.0	There are two training montages back to back.
1:09.6	He's in Russia, training in the mountains, in the middle of the snow.
1:14.5	These two training montages with two different songs, back to back separated by, I think
1:19.2	like 43 seconds worth of Adrian comes and says, I couldn't stay away from you, Rocky.
1:24.3	He's like, okay, we're here now, so let's go train some more.
1:29.4	I remember seeing Rocky 4 with my siblings, going home and like, okay, how do we do this?
1:34.4	How do we do those sit-ups like he did?
1:36.0	How do we do all these other lifts and all these kind of things?
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