Global revolution begins with a personal resolution.
This is my first audio article of 2026 and I wish you all a very happy new year.
We all have made or make new year's resolutions.
So why not understand a little more about this,
Why it's a thing and why it is important.
In this audio article about new year's resolutions,
I'm sharing the following.
First,
What is the importance of a resolution?
Second,
How to choose your resolution?
Third,
How does resolution affect your lifestyle and goals?
Fourth,
What could be your resolution?
Fifth,
Which is the best resolution?
Sixth,
Why is it important to make your resolution public?
And seventh,
At the end,
I reveal my new year's resolution to all of you.
Do listen and I promise it would be a good use of your time.
Let's dive in straight.
Global revolution begins with a personal resolution.
It's day 11 of your new year's resolution.
How are you progressing with that?
To change the world,
We need to first change ourselves.
That is why we need these resolutions to become successful.
Every day we make decisions,
Small and big,
Easy and hard.
Few decisions are genuinely hard to make.
And when we make any decision,
There is risk involved.
The bigger our decision,
It's likely to have bigger risk and greater rewards.
Making the resolution is like making a decision.
But the question is how to make the right decision?
The answer lies in our lifestyle.
That is why most new year's resolutions revolve around bringing a change in our lifestyle rather than achieving a goal.
Our existence consists of three qualities,
Namely sattva,
Which is goodness,
Rajas,
That is passion,
And the last one is tamas,
That is ignorance.
A good lifestyle is one where we have an abundance of sattva,
That is goodness,
Some rajas,
That is passion,
And an absence or positive tamas,
Which is ignorance.
These three qualities are related to our five senses,
What we taste,
See,
Hear,
Smell and touch.
The control over our senses happens when we have control and balance over our diet,
Our visuals,
Our sound,
Substance and bodily pleasure.
We should strive to maximize our sattva qualities,
Balance our rajas qualities and minimize our tamas qualities.
If we don't have a controlled lifestyle,
It would bring difficulties in reaching our goals and oftentimes leaves us with complaints,
Guilt and dissatisfaction and we might find ourselves saying to our future self,
If I could have done this,
I could have achieved that.
Now,
How to control or balance what we taste,
See,
Hear,
Smell and touch to build a lifestyle that is best for our body,
Mind and soul.
Take a decision or make a resolution.
You can choose among these.
We may choose to add more vegetarian or vegan options to our plate to make it more sustainable.
We may choose to reduce our social media or media intake.
We may choose not to use our mobile for at least one hour after we wake up and before we go to bed.
We may choose to replace or reduce our consumption of negative content and news with positive media or stories.
We may choose to take an alternative to de-addict ourselves from any substance use and start physical exercise,
Yoga or gym.
We may choose to control our desires for bodily pleasure by indulging ourselves in service or seva.
There could be billions of resolutions but there is one resolution that could benefit all the decisions we make and it is a tried,
Tested and successfully demonstrated method to achieve our goals.
Historically,
This has been and is followed by great personalities from all walks of life,
Be it industrial leaders,
Political leaders,
Artists,
Sportsmen,
Academicians and of course spiritual leaders.
The best resolution is to practice mindfulness through meditation for a couple of minutes every day.
Therefore,
I'm sharing my resolution publicly here with all of you.
This public announcement of my resolution would make me accountable to you all.
My new year resolution is I'll become regular in my meditation.
Let's join me in this amazing journey of doing meditation every day.
You may also choose to make your resolution public to be free from the fear of failure.
Remember this progression.
Our decision leads to an action.
Our repeated actions become a habit.
The habit becomes our character and our character determines our destiny.
This audio article is a reflection and learnings from chapter 6 and 14 of the magnificent Bhagavad Gita.
If you're excited about your journey,
Then let's connect to learn and grow together.
Thank you so much.
