Ah, yes. New Year's Resolutions. It's a tradition that invokes everything from pleasure to resignation, has a success rate akin to winning the lottery and has the power to begin feelings of guilt, failure, and dark humor in a flash. And yet every year, millions of people are drawn to the ritualistic hope of achieving some magical outcome as if, perhaps, Finally, we will triumph over a stubborn habit or fear that has resisted (clobbered, thrashed, walloped?) our most sincere efforts in years past.
But, alas, the annoying reality is that the payback for this year's toil will probably be no separate than last, or the one before that (sigh). study over the years has ended that about 80% of all New Year's Resolutions are broken by January 31. If that resolution had something to do with health and fitness (working out, losing weight, quitting smoking, etc), 90% will be history by January 15th!! By the end of the year, less than 5% of us will have persevered with our resolutions intact. It's easy to see why so many people don't take this each year ritual serious to begin with. What's up with all That?
Notwithstanding their diabolical reputation, New Year's Resolutions can be a very distinct resource. They can provide an opportunity for us to rate our expand in life, which is not a horrible idea. They can invigorate our lives with provocative challenges and fabulous experiences to look send to. Who says they have to be a drag? Just because things haven't worked out well in the past with respect to your resolutions is no think to assume they never will. And, just because you may have never carefully New Year's Resolutions as a fabulous mechanism for creating new and provocative outcomes, doesn't mean it's too late to start doing that.