People who explicitly make new year resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than those who don’t

People who explicitly make new year resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than those who don’t

3 Jan

According to recent research, around 45% of Americans make a new years resolution. The common common ones center around losing weight, exercising more, handling debt better and stopping smoking.

Obviously, many people don’t keep their resolutions. The figures say that after 6 months, only 46% of resolutions have been kept with 75% kept after the first week, 71% after 2 weeks and 64% after a month.

The origins of new year resolutions come from a ancient Roman myth; The early Roman king Janus. Janus had two faces, one facing forward and one backward. With these two faces he could see both the past and future. The romans used the image of Janus looking back at the past year and looking forward to the new year to come. and they would exchange gifts at new year to celebrate this. The gifts were commonly coins bearing the image of Janus. We can also thank Janus for the Roman naming of the month of January.

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  • Last year, I achieve over 90% of my resolution. Will try to achieve that again with a new resolution.

    What is your resolution my friend?
    Care to share them?
  • Ah, my resolution has been the same for many years, to give up smoking. It's pretty easy though, I've given up at least 10 times now.
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