To start with, here is a New Year Resolution given by our founder in the year 1933 to 'The Scout' magazine and published in 'The South India Boy Scout' magazine in Feb - 1933.
A New Year Resolution
If a chap wants to get to the top of a house, he may try to jump there, or he may try to climb up the wall, or he may sit down and say to himself that it is hopeless. In any casem he won't get there. But if he gets a ladder and goes up it, step by step, he will succeed, even if it's a long way up and takes a lot of puffing and blowing to get there.
Well it's the same in your career in life. Look up and see where you want to get to. Don't imagine that you will jump there all at once, or that you can climb there without having to any proper preparation for it. But put up your ladder - that is, prepare yourself in your school and Scout training, step by step, to go up - and you'll get there in the end.
- LORD BADEN POWELL, The Chief Scout.
