Settling into the new year, people start to think about the resolutions they want to partake in. Sketching out the new person they want to be, but will the plans they make really last for long?

I’m sure everyone’s heard of New Year’s Resolutions. Many think it’s common sense to have a set of goals to bring into the new year. Common resolutions that people make are eating healthier, working out more, saving money, and traveling. Although making exciting plans for the future is fun, most resolutions seem to end very quickly. In an article from Verywell Mind, they say that 90% of New Year’s Resolutions tend to be abandoned and fail just within a few months.

Now we tend to wonder why most of our aspirations fail. When it comes to laying out our resolutions, setting the bar too high seems to be an issue. We set these goals that we want to reach, but won’t fix our habits to achieve them. CBS News says, “40% of what we do day in and day out are habits”. The reason those goals are thrown away so fast is because we don’t care to change our lifestyles.

Sometimes these are resolutions that we come up with off the top of our heads and not really understanding why we’re setting it. It would make it easier to set goals that benefit us. It’s easier to achieve the goal if we know why or how we will grow from it. Being specific with our intentions can help identify what needs to be done to make it a part of our lives.

On the other hand people might just be setting the goal just for the aspect of it. As we know most resolutions fail. So when lots of resolutions die early on it’s mostly because people tend to forget or don’t care. Most of the population making resolutions are young adults. This makes sense considering young adults are figuring out their lives, they would drop new habits easily. The population that seems to keep their goals are the older generations considering they know what they want and can figure out how to achieve it.

When it comes to teens or younger kids don’t have the right idea how to set resolutions.Tying back to setting random goals because we either say “hey I need to set a resolution” or feel pressured to. Adela Mujkanovich, freshman, was asked how she felt about New Year’s Resolutions, she said, she didn’t personally set a resolution and seems to feel most of her peers didn’t either.

Setting a New Year’s Resolution may seem easy but sticking to it is a lot harder than you would think.