If you plan to make a New Year’s resolution tomorrow night, you may need to genuinely focus on making the change in order to keep the pledge.
Alison Phillips, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, says our approach to making resolutions usually sets us up for failure.
“I’ve seen two different statistics, one is that 80% of resolutions fail by the second week in February,” Phillips says. “The other is a bit less depressing and that’s 40% of us are still hanging on after four months. Either way, long-term efforts at changing our behavior generally fail.”…