Get Smart

Making New Year’s resolutions is easy, sticking to them is another matter entirely.

- Marc Wilson

You did, didn’t you? You made a New Year’s resolution again. I know this because I can read your mind … Actually, because the base rate of resolution setting is so high, I could tell a room of 100 people that they’d made a resolution and 80% would think I was psychic.

More than half of all resolutions are health related, so almost half of my 100-strong room would gasp in amazement if I proclaimed to all that I knew they’d made a resolution about their health.

Unfortunately, if you are one of the 80% who made at least one resolution, the odds are fair that you’ve already broken it – about a third don’t survive into the second week of January. And, only 16 people from my room of 100 are still going after three months. Women and older people have an even lower resolution survival rate.