Why "most Americans are ditching traditional New Year's resolutions for 2021": A transformative goal for our souls
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 1 January 2021
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JANUARY 01, 2021
In light of the year just ending, many Americans are making unusual resolutions for 2021. Today's podcast tells this story, then we focus on the concept of resolutions and years before choosing a simple but transformative goal for our souls.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.9 | Happy New Year. We just ended a year like no other in living memory. So it stands to |
| 0:25.9 | reason that we are beginning this new year in unprecedented fashion as well. I found this article |
| 0:31.8 | interesting. Most Americans are ditching traditional New Year's resolutions for 2021, survey finds. It begins, |
| 0:39.9 | seven and ten Americans are tossing out their materialistic New Year's resolutions for 2021. |
| 0:45.9 | Top resolutions are not focused on going to the gym or losing weight, but rather on learning |
| 0:51.1 | life skills, 71%, such as saving money for the future, 62%, and learning a new skill, 50%. |
| 0:59.8 | More than two-thirds of us want to focus more on experiences such as spending time with our families and traveling more, |
| 1:07.3 | and 58% said their 2021 resolution will be having a more positive outlook on life. |
| 1:13.7 | Given the year we just experienced, such resolutions are both unsurprising and appropriate. |
| 1:21.8 | The concept of resolutions is interesting. We can resolve to travel more, but what if another pandemic hits? |
| 1:29.9 | We can resolve to save money for the future, but what if your job is downsized? I suspect that |
| 1:36.1 | resolutions are a way for us to gain a sense of control over an uncontrollable future. |
| 1:42.2 | In that sense, they mimic the concept of years. Nature has no idea that |
| 1:47.5 | today begins a period in time called 2021. Other calendars track time very differently than ours. For instance, |
| 1:55.6 | today is December 19th, 2020 on the Julian calendar. Kayak 23, 1737 on the Coptic calendar, and Tavith 175781 on the Hebrew |
| 2:08.7 | calendar. It seems to me that we create years to give us a sense of closure and new beginnings. |
| 2:15.0 | It feels as though 2020 is over and 2021 has begun, but neither is true |
| 2:21.5 | except in our imaginations. What is true is that this is the day that the Lord has made. With all |
| 2:31.2 | our scientific sophistication, we can make not a single moment of time. Every day that |
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