Welcome to Your New Year!

With a new year and decade beginning today, many of us are making big, beautiful, hopeful resolutions for 2020!

This will be the year we finally apply for that job promotion; the year we lose that extra 20 lbs. We’ll save up enough money to take that big trip we’ve been dreaming of; we’ll exercise five times a week instead of twice. We’ll be a more loving spouse or partner; we’ll be more patient with our kids.

We have such good intentions, we start off full of energy and enthusiasm like there’s a fire burning under us.

And yet, for every person making resolutions today, research shows that within one week, a quarter of us will give up. Perhaps more surprisingly, fewer than 1 in 10 will actually persevere with our goals until the end of the calendar year!

Why does this happen?