Give up your New Years resolution.

About 42% of people reading this who created a New Years resolution have already been unable to keep them in the first month.*

It’s not your fault! You should quit trying to make a year goal, and try and make an achievable habit or goal you can do every day/week/month.

It’s only the first month, and everyone here at WeDo wants you achieve your resolutions this year. We recently added habits to our task app for this reason, making us the first task app that has habits. We’ve learned a lot from our users. We’d like to give you some quick suggestion we’ve seen for people who stay on track.

1) Create short-term not yearly goals

Having a yearly resolution is hard to keep track of, and is so far in the future, it’s hard to visualize success.

We recommend creating daily habits and breaking your New Years resolution into things you can manage once a day, week or month.

A year can go by very quickly, and it’s easy to find excuses and put things off until “tomorrow.” Everyday there’s a tomorrow. So it’s an easy phrase to keep saying. That tomorrow turns into a week, a month, and then you’re almost done with the year.

If you make it something at the top of your mind everyday, and it’s something you can visualize, which we’ll talk about next, you’re much more likely to accomplish it.

2) Make realistic goals you can make incremental progress with

Now that you’ve decided to break your yearly resolution up into a daily/weekly/yearly habit or goal, it’s time to make that something you can actually achieve.

Instead of saying “Lose 20 pounds” this year, try “No sugar” as a daily habit. Instead of “Run a 10k” try a daily habit of “Run 20 minutes.”

We have found that users who set more realistic habits, and have specific goals everyday, week, or month like “20 minutes” or “10 push ups” or “No sugar” complete them more often than those who set unrealistic generic habits, like “Eat healthy,” “Run 10k” or “Lose weight.”

3) Be honest about the time commitment

Anything worth doing takes time and commitment. It means you have to make time. There’s a quote from the Wall Street Journal that says this well:

“Instead of saying ‘I don’t have time’ try saying ‘it’s not a priority,’ and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: ‘I’m not going to edit your resume, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.’ ‘I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.’ If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Change your language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.”

The point of this quote, is that you can always justify not doing something. But when you’re honest with yourself about why you’re not getting something done, you can move forward and start solving that problem.

If you make a fake excuse, you’ll never find a real answer.

From everyone here at WeDo, have a happy, healthy, and productive day.

The WeDo team

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Source: http://www.statisticbrain.com/new-years-resolution-statistics/