Happy New Year! Streamers! Parade! Ball Dropping! Expensive tickets to a party where the line to the bar is so deep you only get 1 drink and everyone leaves by 12:08!
…Wait, what’s that you say? It’s NOT New Years? It’s already past the middle of January? OK – let’s check in on all those resolutions you said were so important just a couple of weeks ago. How are you doing?
Approximately one-third of people will break their New Year’s resolutions within the first 30 days.
If you’re still going, keep up the great work! It typically takes about 2 months for a new habit to form. This study, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology in 2010, shows that people took anywhere from 18 to 254 days (average 66 days) for their new habit to become automatic, mostly depending on the person and habit. No wonder it’s not easy!
If you’ve already broken your resolution, don’t despair. Just get back on the horse. Why not pretend that today is New Years Eve? You don’t have to wait for an artificially made up day to begin forming a new habit. So break out those streamers and celebrate!
3… 2… 1… start again!