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So dad there's this New Year's resolution that I found on social media and it says,

I was gonna give up chocolate for New Year's, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.

Here's another one. My resolution was to read more, so I put subtitles on my TV.

Okay I love this one too.

I love when they dropped the ball in Times Square because it's a nice reminder of what I did all year.

Oh nice.

For some people to the years is really a reminder of what they didn't do. Like the

guy who said, may your troubles last only as long as your New Year's resolutions.

Yeah, most of us start out with really good intentions like

40% of people make a new year's resolution at some point. They want to do things

like lose weight or save money or quit smoking or spend more time with their family, but it's so easy to get motivated

right after the holidays, but it sure is hard to keep that motivation going.

Yeah, it sure is.

Did you know more people join a gym in January than in any other month? I mean, kind of self-evident, right? is but most of them drop out. In fact, gym owners count on it.

They weigh oversell memberships because they know only about 1 in 6 will really use them.

Really?

One in 6?

Well, that's actually a better average than most New Year's resolutions.

There was a study from the University of Scranton that said about 25% of New Year's resolutions fail in the first week.

Another third don't last a month, and only 8% actually make it all year long.

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