Dec
30
Study: making a New Year’s resolution improves your chances of accomplishing a positive change tenfold
There is a great article in Wall Street Journal on New Year’s resolutions. According to a study, led by Dr. Norcross from University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, the majority of New Year’s resolutions do fail but this overshadows an important truth: the simple act of making a New Year’s resolution sharply improves your chances of accomplishing a positive change—by a factor of 10.
Journalist Sue Shellenbarger also gives six tips that will help you keep your resolution, among them announce your intentions to develop positive ‘peer pressure’. We concur 100%.
