With the New Year comes new year resolutions.
It offers a clean slate and people feel they can set things right with the new year. We also know that most people don’t usually follow through with these goals.
It has just become a ritual (in a way) to have resolutions for the new year.
This is because a lot of people feel pressured by the New Year to make the resolution in the first place and they might not even be ready for the change. In relation to this, people commonly make their resolutions bigger than they actually are and don’t really think about how the goal is improving them.
90% of resolutions fail within a couple of months because of this. We keep making them, however, because we have hope that it will be different and they will improve this year.
Unfortunately, optimism alone isn’t enough to keep a resolution going strong. Someone has to actually want to change. So no, resolutions aren’t realistic because we as humans aren’t wired to make big changes.
Even though we want to, we will most likely revert back.
Sources:
https://www.verywellmind.com/why-new-years-resolutions-fail-6823972