How To Make New Year's Resolutions You Can Actually Keep
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
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But research and polling show that a lot of people who set out make resolutions give up on them. If the temptation of an extra hour of sleep is likely to crush your dream to attend that 6am spin class, maybe you need to rethink your resolution.
Host Juana Summers talks with Marielle Segarra, host of NPR's Life Kit, about why focusing more on smaller goals and intentions can help you succeed
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| 0:00.0 | 2024 has officially arrived and many people out there approach the new year full of excitement and resolve, ready to commit to new goals and |
| 0:15.7 | intentions. |
| 0:16.7 | And if you're one of those people, you are not alone. |
| 0:20.7 | Here's what some of our colleagues at all things considered had to say when we |
| 0:24.2 | ask them if they were starting the new year with any resolutions. My New Year's |
| 0:28.4 | resolution is to cook more. I want to read books more for joy. I want to make a traditional Palestinian |
| 0:35.8 | Thobe from scratch. The voices you just heard were NPR producers Erica Ryan, |
| 0:40.8 | Alejandra Marquez Hanse, and Lena Muhammad. And Lena's resolution was a bit of a repeat. |
| 0:47.0 | She told us that she had the same goal last year. |
| 0:50.1 | It was a lot more work than I expected, and so I didn't get to finish. |
| 0:55.0 | We're not finishing it. I mean started. |
| 0:57.8 | Lena is not alone. |
| 0:59.2 | While resolutions are a tradition, many people don't stick with them. |
| 1:03.8 | A Forbes Health One Poll survey found that the average resolution lasts under four months |
| 1:09.6 | and almost a third make it two months or less. |
| 1:12.4 | That is something that Director Jonas |
| 1:14.4 | Adams is familiar with. I like New Year's resolutions. I like the thought of |
| 1:17.9 | setting goals for the new year. I just forget what they are by February. So |
| 1:21.9 | yeah, that's probably what's going to happen for |
| 1:24.5 | 2024. Good luck to me. And then there are those who don't make New Year's |
| 1:28.8 | resolutions at all, like producer Megan Limb. I don't have any resolutions this year or any year. |
| 1:35.9 | I don't believe in resolutions because I don't believe in |
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