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New Year Resolutions: Hope or Hype?

New Year's resolutions. (Courtesy)

I can't be the only person who ends every year with so much zeal and gusto for the new year, my resolutions in hand, only to revert to my old habits after a month or even less. Research shows that 80% of resolutions-making spur-of-the-moment decisions to make drastic, major life changes-are illogical. The new year's high dissipates, reality sets in, and resolutions go unfulfilled. It's not surprising that most people have given up on said tradition; making resolutions for tradition's sake is...

Does this mean I will stop setting goals and resolutions? Probably not. For those of us who keep setting resolutions, why do we keep setting goals we almost always abandon? If New Year's resolutions worked, we would all be healthier, skinnier, and richer, so why do we keep doing it?

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