With 2020 in full swing, you’ll either have made great headway on your new year’s resolutions, or failed them completely.
This isn’t unique to you, either. We’ve all made resolutions at the turn of the year that we’ve failed to act upon.
Some are more common than others, though. So, with that in mind, here are the top new year’s resolutions for 2020, according to Statista, and why they're so often failed.
The new year brings about lots of renewed desires to get fit, but this is one popular resolution that’s incredibly easy to lose sight of.
The reason is obvious. It’s easy to join a gym, but it’s much harder to make it a habit. Thus, those first few visits are fleeting and it’s another membership card that gets lost at the back of your drawer.
Just like getting fit, losing weight is a common new year’s resolution, but it’s far easier said than done.
The desire to shed a few pounds is often the result of far too much Christmas excess, but therein lies the problem: it’s a short term goal that is neither achievable, nor timely. Before you know it, you’ve hit March and haven’t made a dent in your weight loss goal.
Along with your new gym membership and promise to lose a bit of tucker will be an improved diet.
After all, you spent the festive period filling your face with all sorts of terrible food, and warm, winter takeaways have become far too common an occurrence.
Unfortunately, healthy eating isn’t always particularly fun, and if you’ve tuned your body to enjoy food of the fast/junk variety, you’ll have a hard time accepting healthy ingredients over a sustained period of time.
We’d all like a bit of extra cash in our back pockets, wouldn’t we? That’s why one of the most common new year’s resolutions is to ‘save more money’.
It sounds simple enough at first, but if you head into this particular promise without setting boundaries or drawing up a proper budget, those savings will probably never materialise.
A better idea would be to hit the job search resources with the aim of increasing your income (and subsequently saving more money), but few people think deeply enough about this kind of new year’s resolution.
Perhaps you’ve always wanted to play the piano. Maybe writing is something you want to invest your personal time in.
Whatever hobby you passionately wish you could get into, setting it as a new year’s resolution is almost always doomed for failure.
The reason is simple - goals of this kind are usually too lofty. Rather than telling yourself “I promise to practice piano twice per week to begin with”, you’ll say, “I’m going to learn to play piano”.
Which promise do you think is most likely to stick?
New year’s resolutions regularly fail, but if you instead break them down into SMART goals, you’ll stand a much better chance of finishing the year fitter, healthier, lighter, and with a brand new hobby under your belt.
