If experience goes to show for anything, some people are already feeling that creeping dread of the reality of sticking to the resolutions they made recently…
“Why We Make Resolutions (and Why They Fail)
“When the psychologist John Norcross researched New Year’s resolutions, in the nineteen-eighties, he found that more than fifty per cent of Americans made some sort of resolution.
“After six months, only forty per cent had stuck with it. When Norcross followed up two years later, the number had dropped to nineteen per cent. Even among the successes, more than half had experienced lapses—fourteen, on average.
“Still, we keep telling ourselves that we can lose weight, save money, and go to the gym.”
Read more: New Yorker
