![]() ![]() You might figure that declaring resolutions doesn’t hurt, even if you don’t complete them. ![]() (For the past few years, the fitness-app company Strava has shared the day in January its users were most likely to give up on their exercise targets-what it cruelly deems “Quitter’s Day.”) In a 2018 YouGov poll, only 6 percent of people who made a resolution were able to fully meet it. Lisa Ordóñez, the dean of UC San Diego’s management school, told me that most goals get abandoned about a month into the year. Yet according to research, New Year’s resolutions just aren’t likely to work. Psychologists, businesspeople, and motivational coaches offer endless, sometimes conflicting, advice: Set bite-size goals that you can realistically accomplish set difficult goals that stimulate you with a challenge make your goals easy to measure seek meaningful well-being rather than shallow self-improvement avoid temptation visualize success congratulate yourself for progress don’t give up if you’re lagging. And I don’t think you should either.īelieve me, I’ve tried every trick in the book. So I’ve resolved to not make any resolutions this year. ![]() How 2022 will unfold is so uncertain that choosing new goals feels like setting forth in a snowstorm, squinting into a great blurry expanse. My 2021 resolutions went unattended while I worked from the couch, donning sweatpants and blue-light glasses, and wondering why, two years into this, I still don’t feel normal. My experience of the pandemic has been one of great luck and privilege-but like many people, I’m worn out anyway. This year, the cycle feels intolerable to me. Here comes another year of saying I’ll do things that, in all likelihood, I won’t. Time’s run out, and now I have to begin again, you might say to yourself. Perhaps you’ve also felt a deep shame for failing resolutions past. Perhaps you’ve already listed 300 New Year’s resolutions, covering the hyper-doable (wash your sheets once a week), the niche (perfect your treble jig so your hot Irish step-dance coach will love you), and the ambitious (this is the year you write your novel). ![]()
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