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Keeping new year's resolutions

Did you make any new year’s resolutions this year? Are you curious about how you fare compared to the rest of your fellow “resolvers”?

Research shows that the percentage of people who maintain new year’s resolutions falls sharply as the weeks go by. The following shows how many of resolutions are maintained as time goes on:
- past the first week: 75%
- past 2 weeks: 71%
- after one month: 64%
- after 6 months: 46%

So, if you’re still living by your resolutions, congratulations. You can take heart in the fact that you’re doing better than many other people. Having held on until now makes you more likely to keep maintaining your resolutions in the future.

This is a good time for you to reflect on what has made it possible for you to stay the course, so that you can keep consciously doing what’s been working for you. In other words: bottle your recipe for success, so you can keep drinking from it.

Now, what if you haven’t been able to keep to your new year’s resolutions… does it mean that it’s hopeless?

Not at all. This is a great opportunity to learn from what happened, and to tweak your approach. For one thing, you may want to revisit your resolution to make it more specific, so that it is easier to follow. “I will go to the gym 3 times a week” is much more specific than “I will get into shape”. Even more specific would be: “I am registering for a class” or “I am hiring a personal trainer”.

But there is something else to be learned from your failure to keep up the resolution. It gives you an incentive to see things differently. It challenges you to learn to deal with all of yourself: the part of you that wants to do better, as well as the part that is resisting. Once you get more curious about this process, you’ll find it has the potential for liberating tremendous energy toward reaching your goals.

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