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!
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