New Year's Resolutions 2022
Photo by Choong Deng Xiang on Unsplash In many cultures, it is traditional to make resolutions at the beginning of a new year, in January. Many people believe that the custom of making resolutions goes back for centuries and was started in Chinese antiquity. Some researchers believe that the reason we are more likely to make resolutions at the beginning of a new year is that people tend to think of their lives as a series of different chapters. The new year is the beginning of one of these chapters, and it symbolizes a new start and a chance to begin again. Maybe you are sceptical and feel that it is not possible to keep your new year’s resolutions. However, research has suggested that 35% of people succeeded in keeping all their resolutions and achieved all the goals they had set for themselves and that a further 50% of people managed to achieve some of the goals. Do you ever make new year’s resolutions and find it impossible to keep them? Many kinds of goals are avoidance...