ROOKE: The New Year’s Resolution You Should Keep |
Every year, millions of adults begin making promises they want to keep in the new year. I am a bit conflicted about whether this is a futile attempt at self-improvement or the perfect reset after a long twelve months.
Most New Year’s resolutions never make it out of the month of January. We’ve all seen how most gyms are at their busiest in January, but the traffic tends to die off by March. My husband and I used to be these people. We would have a list of resolutions, like cutting out sugar, meal prepping, investing more, etc., but when December came around, these wish-list items, which never really meant very much to us, had unsurprisingly fallen by the wayside. Life gets in the way, and the more important priorities of raising children and having a happy marriage took precedence over the surface-level promises.
The failure rate for New Year’s resolutions is said to be an estimated 80% with most people losing their resolve and motivation just weeks later in mid-February, according to U.S News and World Report.
— Tim Tebow (@TimTebow)