|
Resolve.
What an exciting time of the year as we welcome in 2017! Happy New Year! Did you join the New Year's Eve resolution bandwagon when the ball dropped? Well, you are in good company. Approximately 45% of Americans make at least one resolution in January. But you might be the only one of your friends keeping them!
Whether it's a lack of willpower or unrealistic goals that are to blame, most people have difficulty sticking to their New Year's resolutions. Just 8% of people who make them will still be committed to them by the end of the year. Especially if you find yourself really busy and crunched for time most days. How well you manage your time apparently has a significant influence over whether you're able to maintain your resolutions during the year. Nearly 40% said that the number one reason they couldn’t follow through was their need to juggle too many other activities.
For many people, the first month after making a resolution is the hardest, but if you can get through it, you significantly up the odds of it becoming a permanent change. Unfortunately, roughly one in three people won't even last 31 days, so you really have to buckle down and keep your eyes on the prize if you want to still be going strong by February.
Something to Think About
One of the reasons why people seem to have so much difficulty adhering to their resolutions is they set the bar too high. Deciding that you're going to run a marathon may seem impossible, but you can take some of the pressure off by taking small steps (run a 10K one year, then a half marathon, before taking on the 26 miler). 35% of those who successfully fulfilled their resolutions broke them down into more easily achievable goals.
Weekly Activity
Set aside some time this week to go back and review those goals, or resolutions. Are they attainable? Are you willing to set aside the time needed to achieve those goals?
Words of Wisdom
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. -Melody Beattie
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. -Hal Borland
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. -Goran Persson
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. -Neil Gaiman
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. -Oprah Winfrey
|
No comments:
Post a Comment