Every year, many of us pull out that trusty pen and paper, sit down after all the New Year’s festivities are over and figure out exactly what we want to get out of the upcoming year. Col. Jim Rice, Director of the Army Wounded Warriors Program, talks about those resolutions and how AW2 Soldiers and Veterans vow to keep their resolutions going strong each and every day of the year.
Many Americans enjoy the New Year’s Day holiday because of the parties, fireworks, college football bowl games, and many other festivities that take place around the country. While I also take pleasure in many of these festivities, what I really enjoy is that many Americans will be evaluating their own lives and making plans to take action during the year ahead.
New Year’s resolutions can be common improvements, such as losing weight, spending more time with Family, reducing debt, or traveling more. More importantly, many will make resolutions to take values more seriously; serving others by being more charitable or volunteering more time to community organizations.
In the U.S. Army, the concept of constantly evaluating one’s self and making plans and commitments for self-improvement is a way of life. From taking the oath to serve our country with loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage to sweating it out daily to improve physical fitness scores — Soldiers make resolutions for improvement every day. As the AW2 Director, I have witnessed first-hand how our AW2 Soldiers and Veterans keep this commitment of constant self-improvement by focusing on their abilities rather than their “disabilities.”
Visit http://aw2.armylive.dodlive.mil/ to read Col. Rice’s entire blog post. Have any New Year’s resolutions you would like to share with the Army family? Please leave them in our comment’s section!
Well I have alot of similar stuff to for my resolution. My major one is to make my Sgt. I am ready for that next step I just have to prove it. I have to loose weight and pass a pt test. I am so determined to do it. I am tired of just floating by and not accomplishing anything. Its time to make a differance. I have been in 5 years and still an E-4 in a combat arms MOS. Its my own fault and place all of the blame on me but its time to change. Its going to take me to change. No one can do it for me. That is all I got to say but just thought I would post something