The hassle of "New Year resoultions"

Fact - Only 8% of people are always successful in achieving their resolutions. 19% achieve their resolutions every other year. 49% have infrequent success. 24% (one in four people) NEVER succeed and have failed on every resolution every year. That means that 3 out of 4 people almost never succeed.

Yeahhh I'm one of those failures in the 24% statistic.

Not only have I actually yet to achieve a news years resoultion but also struggle in remembering what my resoultions were?

Half way through the year, I reflect on the celebrations of new year and try to remind myself what my new year resoultions were - blank. Cannot remember a thing. So this then makes it crystal clear to me that really, I don't care much for new years resoultions. I'm pretty sure I wont stick to them, the goals I make sometimes are unattainable and unrealistic anyways (such as going on a diet). I mean come on, how many girls (and some guys) make that their number one aim every year, and yes they re-make it every year because truth is the diet always goes out of the window EVERY YEAR. In conclusion, if you look at it that way - we are setting ourselves up to fail. Unrealistic resoultions just never cease to happen. How about the resoultion of being "a better person" or "being more postive" again, I am gulity of this one. Every year I try to highlight the importance of bringing good karma and treating those how I would want to be treated. But just saying you want to be a better person or being more postive, what does that actually entail. Being more specific about your new years resoultions increases the chances of you succeeding your resoultions. Instead of saying I want to be a better person - perhaps make it your goal to help individuals like your family, friends or volunteer at a charity organisation.


The less happy you are, the more likely you are to set New Year’s Resolutions. This is especially true for those who set money-related resolutions: 41% are not happy, 34% are moderately happy, and 25% are happy.


Let me get this straight - the "less happier" individuals are, the more likely they are to set new years resoultions. However the previous statistic states that only 8% of people achieve their resoultions; therefore making the "Less happier" indivduals more vulnerable to disapointment by not achieving there goals. This just baffles me.


2012, a year I'm feeling optimistic about.



So here are my new year resoultions:

1. DIET
2. Try to be more cheerful and not get hung up on dramas
3. Write more
4. Read as much as I can, also read a variety of wider genres

Well number 1 has gone out the window already, Im currently sat her eating a box of maltesers (a big box). So far, I'm doing well on number 3 and number 4 but only time will tell if I can really stick to them. That's if I haven't forgotten what they were by that time. The good thing is I've always been a bit of a book worm so that shouldn't be hard to stick to, however I tend to read to the same kind of books such as inspiriational books, and lovey dovey ones. I recently purchased "The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson after a few people recommened it to me. So far, I'm mezmerised by this book. I shan't say too much about it as I'm going to write a brief review on it for a future blog.



Finger's crossed that I might fall in to the 8% statistic this year!


I highly doubt it though.