Habit: How to keep a resolution (video)

Matt D'Avella, Dec. 31, 2018; Ananda, Dhr. Seven, Jen, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Get help. Spiritual progress is an inside job.

What we need is committment, discipline, and GRIT. That's passion and perseverance combined. Passion gets us started then fails us, so we then switch to perseverance that doesn't need motivation or emotion, just committment. That's the discipline. Get help, a party to be answerable and accountable to. Be a friend, and you'll have a friend. Keep at it until the habit forms. Then it gets easier. Join a group if necessary. The more resources we have, the richer and more successful we get.

Get your New Year's resolutions to stick

Matt D'Avella (patreon.com/mattdavella) has advice, and his channel is ad-free. He helped and asked for help from:

• Ground Up with Nate Green (nategreen.org)
• that helpful TED Talk abot grit (goo.gl/qDoojm)
• Park the ego at the door, and watch get help.
• Matt makes new videos every week and new
• podcast episodes every Wednesday.
• Podcast (groundupshow.com)
• Newsletter (mattdavella.com/unstuck)
• instagram.com/mattdavella
• twitter.com/mattdavella.

Is a daily meditation practice the goal -- to someday be serene and find enlightenment? Then here's the chance of a lifetime at Los Angeles' Dharma Buddhist Meditation group sitting: meetup.com/zen-07.