How to resolve your resolutions

The dust has settled from New Years and Christmas celebrations (including Orthodox) leaving probably a thicker waist line and a longer resolution list. If you’re anything like me, someone who is obsessive about list making (but admittedly less obsessive about checking EVERYTHING off said lists), then you’ll appreciate this article about why we continually break our resolutions.

I think that we only allow ourselves to splurge in the decadence of the holidays because we now that we will “tighten the belt” (both figuratively and literally) second the clock hits midnight. Ok, well, maybe not until the text day (how can one deal with the disappointments of the previous year) without consuming copious amounts of food/drink?

The article published by the Harvard Business Review gives some good tips as to how we can better maximise the success of our resolutions in the new year - from creating the resolutions to following through with them.

The only thing I take issue with is making your goals public. A recent study actually came out supporting the opposite. Apparently once we make our targets known to our close peers, a chemical reaction occurs in our brains that mimics the satisfaction of achieving a goal.