New Year's Resolutions? Not for Me!

By Homesmsp @HomesMSP

First of all...Happy New Year everyone! May 2015 be an amazing year for you.

I try making New Year's resolutions and I try not making them (see my post "My Non-Resolution" from last year at this time) and it just never works. So nope....not this year. I am not going to do it.  

I found these statistics posted on "The Statistic Brain"  that were done by the University of Scranton Journal of Psychology and found them interesting.  I see my 'Non-Resolution' last year to get organized came in at #2.....

Rank Top 10 New Years resolutions for 2014

1 Lose Weight

2 Getting Organized

3 Spend Less, Save More

4 Enjoy Life to the Fullest

5 Staying Fit and Healthy

6 Learn Something Exciting

7 Quit Smoking

8 Help Others in Their Dreams

9 Fall in Love

10 Spend More Time with Family

News Years Resolution Statistics Data

Percent of Americans who usually make New Year’s Resolutions 45%

Percent of Americans who infrequently make New Year’s Resolutions 17%

Percent of Americans who absolutlely never make New Year’s Resolutions 38%

Percent of people who are successful in achieving their resolution 8%

Percent who have infrequent success 49%

Percent who never succeed and fail on their resolution each year 24%

People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don’t explicitly make resolutions

Type of Resolutions (Percent above 100% because of multiple resolutions) Data

Self Improvement or education related resolutions 47%

Weight related resolutions 38%

Money related resolutions 34%

Relationship related resolutions 31%

Age Success Rates Data

Percent of people in their twenties who achieve their resolution each year 39%

Percent of people over 50 who achieve their resolution each year 14%

Length of Resolutions Data

Resolution maintained through first week 75%

Past two weeks 71%

Past one month 64%

Past six months 46%

So how about you, do you make New Year's Resolutions? If you do or did, I wish you all the best in succeeding!

Shar Sitter, owner Rooms With Style Home Staging and Redesign Minneapolis MN.

CHSE and APSD Home Stager Pro Trainer

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