New Year's Resolutions
Perhaps we shouldn’t think about them as resolutions, but rather self-improvements. And self-improvement doesn’t necessarily mean you have to give something up. Instead, think of it as taking on a healthy habit. Sounds better, right - Stacy Matson
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Getting fit and losing weight are two of the most common New Year’s resolutions, and both depend on making daily changes to your life. That means interrupting your normal habits and exchanging them for new ones. Unfortunately, humans are terrible at doing both of those things. Ironically, though, it’s hard to change habits precisely because our brains are so good at becoming habituated. We’re hardwired to automate processes. It’s how you can find yourself at work without having to think about getting there, or why you reach for the patch of wall where the light switch is in your own bathroom when you stumble into a hotel’s commode. It’s also why most new diets and exercise plans fail. Once…
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New Year’s Resolutions Are A Waste Of Time
Resolutions are also made worse by the fact that many of us try to go it alone. It’s in their very nature — a resolution is all about “Me”: “I’m going to get more exercise” or “I’m going to cut back on heroine sandwiches”. You don’t make a resolution to help others, because the whole idea is that you are going to improve yourself.
Sick of Failing at Your New Year’s Resolutions? There Is a Better Way
Psychologists who study self-control have advice about how best to stick to our goals. The worst approaches involve what they call “response modulation”—otherwise known as white-knuckling it as you stare down temptation. Good old will power. The ancient Greeks knew that this was a terrible strategy, as evidenced by their myths. As Odysseus approached the Sirens, whose songs would lure men to their deaths, he plugged the ears of his crew and had himself bound to the mast of his ship.
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Forget your gym subscription—be more like the Sardinians
Gym memberships spike in January. We then spend months wasting money on them and feeling guilty. Gold’s Gym, a fitness chain, even uses falling check-in data to identify the day when resolutions fail. They call it the Fitness Cliff—and it’s normally sometime in early February. The problems with joining a gym as a New Year’s resolution are manifold. Changing and forming habits is hard to maintain when the new habit is a radical departure from your old ways.
I Did All Your New Year's Resolutions
The new year has shined a light upon me and burned the crust from my eyes to allow me to see the errors of my ways. You see, I was once like you. I was once a barrel full of piss and pizza, stressed cork struggling to contain the putrescent goo within. I was once tired, suppressing vomit in the shower, crying black red-wine tears—but I have left that life behind. I am writing this at the end of a perfect day. My eyes are shining a bright white light, one of completion and joy. I have changed for the better, friends. I am cleansed.
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A guide to New Year’s resolutions that are actually meaningful
New Year’s resolutions are typically a self-centered affair. We promise to eat more vegetables; to exercise more; to read every New Yorker issue cover-to-cover, instead of letting them pile up on the coffee table. I generally make the same New Year’s resolution every year: eat better. My diet of kale salad and baked salmon usually sticks for about six months. Then, like clockwork, I fall off the wagon come June or July.
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I’ve decided to say “no” more often. I’ve decided to examine the bad habits and the behaviors that cost me time but give me little in return. I’ve decided to make mindfulness a continuous practice. And I want to read more, so that I can further learn about empathy and understanding. And I’m doing all this so that I can continue to fight for equality, in and out of the hospital halls.
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New Year's Resolutions Are Predictions About the Future
New Year’s resolutions are predictions about the future. They are usually aspirational. And they are almost always deceptive. Like so many people, I did not end up doing what I said I would. And here’s the thing: I failed at the easiest prediction possible—me predicting me, just a few weeks into the future.
New Year's Resolutions Don't Last. Try This Instead.
Every year around this time, some of us approach the turning of the calendar the way Charlie Brown approaches the football in the classic Peanuts cartoon. Even though Lucy has previously fooled him and whisked the ball away at the last moment every time, he is hopeful that this time will be different. Similarly, in spite of the very mixed track record of New Year’s resolutions, we make them again and again, somehow hoping this time will be different. This year, let us not fool ourselves again.
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New Year's resolutions: How do you make one you will keep?
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Our Tech Resolutions...
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The Only Way to Keep Your Resolutions
Unfortunately, the problem of New Year’s resolutions is, in a way, the problem of life itself. Our tendency to be shortsighted — to value the pleasures of the present more than the satisfactions of the future — comes at a considerable cost.
Which New Year’s Resolutions Are Most Likely to Stick?
Grandiose goals and vague promises don’t work, and neither does beating up on yourself for slip-ups.
Why We Think We Can Keep Those New Year's Resolutions
When we think about taking action sometime in the future, we tend to neglect the constraints we’ll face when the future actually arrives.
Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Are Doomed to Fail
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Should You Even Bother with New Year’s Resolutions This Year?
Setting resolutions often feels like a pointless exercise — something we do at the beginning of each year only to then feel guilty by February. The pandemic has only made the practice feel more helpless. Why even attempt to set resolutions when you have no idea what will transpire in the coming months? The author explains why setting an intention for yourself is still a good idea and offers practical tips on how to make your resolutions actually stick.
How To Actually Keep Your New Year Resolutions
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How to Make (and Keep) a New Year's Resolution
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How to trick your brain into keeping a New Year’s resolution
Ironically, though, it’s hard to change habits precisely because our brains are so good at becoming habituated. We’re hardwired to automate processes. It’s how you can find yourself at work without having to think about getting there, or why you reach for the patch of wall where the lightswitch is in your own bathroom when you stumble into a hotel’s commode. It’s also why most new diets and exercise plans fail. Once a habit is automatic, it’s extraordinarily difficult to change it. But you can harness that propensity to form habits. Let’s take a popular resolution—wanting to get in shape.
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It’s that time again. Resolutions are made, gyms grow crowded, and people toast to a healthier New Year over the latest juice cleanse. It’s easy to commit during the glow of the holidays but then lose steam in the months that follow. Set yourself up for success this year and give your willpower the boost it needs with the help of five simple tips that fit into your regular routine and stick around past February.
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It’s that time of year when people make their New Year’s resolutions—indeed, 93% of people set them, according to the American Psychological Association. The most common resolutions are related to losing weight, eating healthier, exercising regularly and saving money. However, research shows that 45% of people fail to keep their resolutions by February...
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50 New Year's Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each Of Them
What follows is a list of 50 common New Year’s resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you’ll be sure to find tons of useful information here.
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