How to keep your New Year's Resolutions this year
Issue 62: Our new piece in TIME Magazine explains how you can apply behavioral science to achieve your New Year's Resolutions--and we share our own resolutions
As 2023 begins, many people are thinking about the changes they want to make in their lives. New year's resolutions are a common tradition, but unfortunately they often fail. While pondering our own resolutions, we turned to behavioral science and wrote an article with TIME Magazine to share our advice on how not to fail at keeping your new year’s resolutions.
Many people start strong with their resolutions, but quite quickly give up on them. By some estimates, about 80% of people fail to keep their resolutions by February, and only 8% stick with them for the entire year.
So, what can we do differently to actually stick to our resolutions?
At this time of year, advice columns offer all kinds of recommendations for leveraging your willpower to meet your goals. Dream Big! Commit yourself! Give yourself a medal! (and those are just the tips from Harvard Medical School). Yet much of the advice we’re given often fails badl…
