11 Dec Not a Fan of New Year’s Resolutions? Make a List Instead.
Each New Year begins with great hope and promise. It’s the chance to reinvent oneself, transform habits, and make a fresh start. But when it comes to New Year’s resolutions, studies suggest we are set up for failure before the year even begins. Psychology Today cites a University of Scranton study that found only 19% of individuals manage to keep their resolutions, and most are abandoned by mid-January – just two weeks into the new year. But why? Most people don’t fail to keep their resolutions because of a lack of willpower. They fail because they shouldn’t have started them on a specific, arbitrary...