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It's time for New Year's resolutions.

New Year.

New me, right?

Wrong.

But everyone I know is doing New Year's resolution, so I should too, right?

No.

Did you read the title of this video?

Absolutely not.

80% of people who make a New Year's resolution will abandon it by the second week of February and certain resolutions, or even harder to keep, like fitness or losing weight.

A social network for athletes looked at user fitness records over the month of January.

They found that U.

S users were likely to bail on their fitness resolutions by January 12.

According to Forbes, the number of New Year's resolutions that are actually achieved 8% Those numbers don't look good.

Why do we suck at resolutions?

Well, to start with there often vague and hard to measure.

Consider the popular resolutions.

Get in shape.

What shape?

Hourglass square, Octagon.

Travel more okay.

Where exactly how long You know there's a pandemic going on?

Don't you have more sex?

Okay.

With him yourself, let's be realistic.

No one could follow through and stuff that broad.

You wanna hold yourself accountable?

You have to be more specific.

Another reason resolutions fail because we don't just need to change our behavior, Wade told our consciousness.

But seriously, behavior is hard to change when we haven't mentally prepared to do so.

Humans hate change because we don't like to abandon what's comfortable to successfully change.

You need to know why you're changing.

You wanna quit smoking?

Think about why you smoke.

Is it stress?

There might be something else you need to address first.

And if you're pursuing a New Year's resolution because of some sort of social pressure, you might not really believe you deserve to achieve your goal.

Or are you afraid that by actually succeeding you might leave others behind?

What will your friends think?

You try hard.

Finally, resolutions don't succeed, because if we don't see instantaneous results, we already feel like we failed and we give up.

It's hard to commit to big change, and if you have some hyper specific idea of your desired outcome, say you want to get in shape and that shapes and octagon.

If you don't achieve that a deal, you might lose sight of the rial ways you benefited.

All right, so is there any help?

Is there any way that my resolution could be in that 8% that succeed?

Maybe if you make a specific resolution, say, eat an extra helping of vegetables every day for two months and you have to know why you're doing it.

You have to really believe that extra helping of vegetables is going to change your life.

You have to commit to those vegetables.

Don't ghost those vegetables.

Marry those vegetables.

But most importantly, don't make a resolution just because everyone else is doing.

That's going to be a waste of money and time.

What's the root causes of your unhappiness?

Is it the stress?

Is it self esteem?

Address the real issues and leave the fitness discounts to the suckers, then oh yeah.