Why Make New Resolutions Every Year?

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Why Make New Resolutions Every Year?

A New Year’s resolution or a commitment is done to make your new year a better one. If someone makes resolutions to reform a habit, then there are people who want to make changes in their lifestyle. These promises are made on New Year’s Day, the first day of a brand new year. These resolutions are supposed to be either fulfilled or abandoned by the end of that year.

•    Donate to the poor more often
•    Become more environmentally responsible
•    Lose weight
•    Get Fit
•    Become more assertive
•    Become more cost-effective
•    Quit smoking, drinking and other such habits
•    Get a Better Job
•    Eat Right
•    Get out of Debt
•    Save Money
•    Reduce Stress
•    Learn something new

New Year Resolution Statistics;

40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year.
Among the top new years resolutions are resolutions about weight loss, exercise, and stopping to smoke. Also popular are resolutions dealing with better money management / debt reduction.

The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:
- past the first week: 75%
- past 2 weeks: 71%
- after one month: 64%
- after 6 months: 46%

While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don’t explicitly make resolutions:
New Year’s resolvers (sample = 159) and comparable nonresolvers interested in changing a problem later (sample = 123) were followed for six months via telephone interviews. Resolvers reported higher rates of success than nonresolvers; at six months, 46% of the resolvers were continuously successful compared to 4% of the nonresolvers.

“Let me know how your resolutions are going…Or indeed if you actually made any?”

Dawn Pugh Expert therapist.

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