New Year’s resolutions are better kept
if subdivided into several smaller parts
[P]eople who kept their resolutions tendedOf the 21 New Year’s resolutions most cited by Americans, the top three were: lose weight, get out of debt and become more organized. The bottom three were: try to get up early in the morning, time management and help the poor.to have broken their goal into smaller steps and rewarded themselves when they achieved one of these. They also told their friends about their goals, focused on the benefits of success and kept a diary of their progress.
People who planned a series of smaller goals had an average success rate of 35%, while those who followed all five of the above strategies had a 50% chance of success, the study found.Ian Sample | Guardian/UK
Getting more organized and time management seem like two ways of saying the same thing, so let us set them aside for the moment.
That leaves the top two resolutions as lose weight and get out of debt and the bottom two as get up early and help the poor. This relative ranking clearly reveals Americans to be vain, wasteful, stingy and oh, so self-involved.
Three "most cited" resolutions plucked out of the middle of the bunch that I liked were maintain a diary (would a blog do?), get a better job (in other words, make more money) and eat right (out with the brownies and chocolate ice cream; in with the baked garlic and blueberry barque).
If allowed to add a fourth resolution to the list, I would have a hard time choosing between get fit, take a trip and learn something new (as in a foreign language and music).
posted by Tom Nadeau at 5:35 AM
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