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Have You Failed Your New Year’s Resolutions Already?
What to do when your resolutions really failed you
Most of us either set New Year’s Resolutions or intentionally choose not to set them. It is a rare person who does not intentionally do one of these two actions at the start of each new year. If you are like me, we set them for all sorts of reasons and likewise choose not to set them for different reasons.
When I hear people say they don’t set them on purpose, I secretly wonder if it is because they have not had them work before — in other words, it may be better to avoid failure by not trying at all.
Yikes!
So, instead of falling down the rabbit and getting lost in considering what else we may be doing wrong, I want to focus on the sorts of resolutions that are most common and then look at what the research may help us understand to achieve them. Perhaps it may even allow us to succeed in some way, as the year is still young!
Common Resolutions
Research on New Year’s Resolutions is not as extensive as you may think. True, many people talk about them, though most people I have read talk about them with little beyond their own experiences. Not to knock people’s experiences, of course — if it is my experience, then that is my experience.
