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Your New Years Resolutions Will Fail
92% of New Year's resolutions fail. This means at least 9 times out of 10, you are more likely to fall back into your old habits and patterns than you are to stick with a new behaviour. Why is that? What are the biggest reasons new habits fail to stick? And what can we do to make positive changes easier?
Callum Carver
December 29, 2023
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YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS WILL FAIL
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92% of New Year's resolutions fail.
This means at least 9 times out of 10, you are more likely to fall back into your old habits and patterns than you are to stick with a new behaviour.
Why is that? What are the biggest reasons new habits fail to stick? And what can we do to make positive changes easier?
Here are two of the main reasons that your New Year’s resolutions will fail…
Trying to Change Everything at Once.
When you get into the mindset of changing your life via habits, you tend to try and stack multiple habits on top of each other, and this can work against you due to the fact that it’s hard to keep up with every habit change and stay consistent.
The general consensus among behaviour change researchers is that you should focus on changing a very small number of habits at the same time.
That sweet spot is having three habits at a time such as doing one pushup a day, reading five pages of a book, waking up slightly earlier, etc.
This way, you have consistency on your side, which you can use to your advantage. So, as a solution, pick a few micro-habits and perfect them.
Seeking a result, not a ritual.
Nearly every conversation about goals and resolutions is focused on some type of result.
What do you want to achieve?
How much weight do you want to lose?
How much money do you want to save?
How many books do you want to read?
How much less do you want to drink?
Naturally, we are outcome-focused because we want our new behaviours to deliver new results.
Here’s the problem: New goals don’t deliver new results; new lifestyles do.
A lifestyle is not an outcome; it is a process. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better rituals, not chasing better results.
Rituals are what turn behaviours into habits, and therefore, as a solution, focus on the behaviour, not the outcome.
TAKEAWAYS:
92% of New Year's resolutions end up failing, and here are two of the main reasons as to why:
Trying to Change Everything at Once: Work on changing and developing micro-habits, not life-changing ones.
Seeking a result, not a ritual: Focus on the behaviours that create the result, not the result itself.
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