One in four people give up on their new years resolutions within a week

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The start of a new year is a time for goalsetting, but so many of us struggle to stick to our new years resolutions. And according to the experts, around a quarter of us barely make a week before giving up on our new year goals completely.

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00:00It's no surprise now that many people are setting New Year's resolutions that are around

00:05their health and wellbeing goals. We also think of the festive season can for many actually

00:10mean a period of overconsumption and indulgence. So the New Year actually can provide a set

00:18point, a focal point or a turning point where we can actually set those goals that we are

00:24perhaps thinking about during that period of overconsumption that we know that next

00:28year will be different for us. It's about being realistic. I think we need to commit

00:32to something that we know requires some sustainable effort to achieve, but not something so hard

00:37that it involves a schedule that will quickly burn out and lose interest. That is what we

00:42say a lot of. And I think there's a sense of let's do less of something, what we would

00:47call an avoidance-oriented goal, rather than doing more of something. So for example, this

00:52approach-oriented goal would say, let's eat more vegetables rather than avoiding something.

00:57So let's eat less sweet treats. It's far more realistic and actually far more successful

01:02if you choose to eat more vegetables than give up something that you actually love.

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