The new year is here and you’ve given serious thought to the upcoming year and the resolution(s) you have made. It is now time to face the new year with the intent to adhere to the new year resolution(s) you’ve made. Unfortunately, most people are not able to sustain the commitments they have made at the beginning of the year. According to researches at the University of Scranton, only 8% of people who make new year resolutions keep them.
Given that, here is a list of the most commonly made and broken new year resolutions.
1. Stay Fit – Exercise More
The number one most commonly made resolution and the most frequently broken. At the beginning of the year, gym membership increases and so do the people frequenting gyms. However, according to researches, most of the annual gym passes go idle by the end of February.
2. Lose Weight
With the weight of the holidays behind us, more than 25% of people make a new year resolution to lose weight. They eat less, go on fad diets, all with the intent of losing that unwanted weight. Unfortunately, that dedication to lose weight usually falters in a few weeks and people go back to their normal eating habits.
3. Eat Healthier
Another praiseworthy resolution that is difficult to keep. As the old cliché say, breaking old habits is hard to do. That is especially true when trying to eat healthier in today’s age of packaged, processed and fast food options. It is so easy to lose the willpower to eat more of those veggies and fruits when there are so many delicious unhealthy options in front of you.
4. Quit Smoking
If you can go cold turkey and quit smoking, it is the healthiest thing you can do for yourself and those around you. However, smoking is addictive and, like bad eating habits, very difficult to break, with only 10% of those individuals trying to knock the habit keeping this resolution for more than six months.
5. Quit Drinking
Like smoking, drinking can become a physical addiction that is very difficult to break. Trying to undertake this resolution by yourself can be daunting and many people are unable to do so.
6. Enjoy Life to the Fullest
That means different things to different people but most experts agree that is doing what you enjoy. Unfortunately, unless your job is something you enjoy and find fulfilling, this resolution is doomed to failure. The truth is the thought of work prevails more than the ability to enjoy life to its fullest. Even on vacations, people think about their work.
7. Find a New Job
Whether if it’s that the work is not fulfilling or your boss is a scrooge or some other reason, over 10% of people start the new year with a resolution to a find a new job. However, most don’t succeed and stay in their current employment.
8. Manage Stress Better
Perhaps the resolution that is broken the quickest because it is so difficult to measure and achieve. There are so many stressors in our lives and the ability to manage and control them is often beyond most people’s capability.
9. Spend Less
More than 14% of people make this resolution but, due to many factors – some outside their control, lack the discipline to adhere to this vow.
10. Spend More Time with Family and Friends
Despite the fact that for most individuals, family and friends are the most important things to them, many people focus on their own personal routines and tend to neglect this aspect of their life. At new year, more than 19% of people do make a resolution to refocus their efforts on family and friends, yet many of these well-doers fall back into their personal routines.
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