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8 New Year’s Resolutions Worth Making
“Remember that if you really want to motivate yourself, love is more powerful than fear.” ― Kristin Neff
A two-year long study found that while 77% of participants had kept their resolutions at one week, only 19% had kept them for 2 years.
“Successful resolvers reported employing significantly more stimulus control, reinforcement, and willpower than the unsuccessful over the 2 years; social support and interpersonal strategies failed to predict success before 6 months but did so thereafter”
That means that you need to surround yourself with an overabundance of positive reinforcements and a fierce freedom from old stimulus that trigger the behavior you want to change.
For example, suppose you’d made the resolution to eat less ultra-processed foods and more fruits & veggies. In that case, you need to dramatically reduce the amount of ultra-processed foods coming into your house and stock your fridge and counters with the fruits and veggies you want to eat more of. Meaning that if you don’t have OREO’s or frozen pizza at home, you’ll automatically be less likely to eat them.
In other words, you need to set your environment up for success.
