I can usually claim to have broken every single one of my resolutions within 3 hours of being awake which probably isn't a good thing but it was while enjoying breaking what is usually my third resolution in the pub during the annual New Years Days drink a few years ago that a friend mentioned an absolute guaranteed way using a punishment worse than whatever evil you are considering giving up that they use to keep their resolutions.
Everybody has a thing they hate, a football team, a political party or even a cause and this is their suggestion for keeping, or at the very least making it harder, to break that resolution.
You write down your resolution, stopping smoking for example, and you put it in an envelope with a cheque for £50 (amount depending on how confident you are) made out to the absolute last cause you would give money to be it the Countryside Alliance if you are an anti-hunt supporter, the Labour Party if you are a dyed in the wool Tory or even the Tottenham Supporters Club if you are an Arsenal fan.
The envelope goes to a friend with the express demand that if you break the resolution, they post the cheque to whoever you made it out to.
If by a certain date, July 2nd for example which is the middle day of the year, you have stuck to your resolution then you get the envelope back and get to rip up the cheque and defy the hated organisation or football team the payment.
It is amazing how much the threat of helping out someone or something you hate with your hard earned cash keeps your focus especially if you have a friend who cannot be talked out of doing the deed if it all goes belly up.
Personally i have resolved to not play any Phil Collins songs on the CD Player. It was only later it was pointed out that i don't own a single Phil Collins song but by then the envelope with the cheque made out to the Catholic Church had been handed over, oh well, sorry Pope.
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