We need not be a victim of conditions or conditioning. We can write your own script, choose our course, and control our own destiny. It takes deep understanding of self and of the principles and processes of growth and change. These include assessment, commitment, feedback, follow-through. We will soon break our resolutions if we don't regularly report our progress to somebody and get objective feedback on our performance.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
Commitment and involvement produce change. If you want to overcome the pull of the past those powerful restraining forces of habit, custom and culture to bring about desired change, count the costs and rally the necessary resources. In the space program, we see that tremendous thrust is needed to clear the powerful pull of the earth's gravity. So it is with breaking old habits. Breaking deeply imbedded habits such as procrastinating, criticizing, overeating or oversleeping involves more than a little wishing and will power.