This year I really am going to…..
Here’s some last-day-of-the-year consolation for those of us who’ve been meaning to get to our 2018 New Year’s Resolution these past 364 days:
It doesn’t matter.
Around 80 percent of our individual resolutions, whether genuine, just well-meaning, or completely phony, are made right around New Years Eve or Day and they are then abandoned by early February at the latest, polls find. So, why bother, right?
The goal we resolve for is usually a good one, unless, say, you’re a bank robber resolving to don better disguises this year.
So, why are New Years resolutions so easy to make and so hard to keep?
The problem, according to psychological research, is that most of us focus only on the results of the resolution. Yes, we’d like to lose weight. Yes, we’d like to eat healthier. Yes, we’d like to work out regularly.
But we skip concentrating on the most important part: The process of that change.
