New Year resolutions usually don’t last, and most people return to life as usual by February. This is not as depressing as it sounds. End-year provides a good opportunity to reflect and New Year resolution is more a by-product of the changes we want to make. The best way to make changes is to alter our habits, and developing/changing habits can start anytime. So if things don’t work out in January, maybe try again in February in different ways. I find it easier to change thing one at a time than all at once, so it makes more sense to space out changes we want to make throughout the year.
I don’t have many ambitious goals this year (to achieve anything significant would likely require more than a year anyway). If I can form a few good habits sometime during the year, I’d be happy.
Below is a video summary of Charles Duhigg’s book on habit, and Alex Tabarrok’s review here.
More on New Year resolutions and the time it takes to form habits.
Ryu's Blog 