Not a person who engages in the tradition myself but I do wonder, about a month in, what fraction are following through so far.
Poll. Don’t answer if like me making them isn’t your thing.
Your judgement on what is enough to say keeping to it. I do not think 100% is necessary to count myself.
Well, I didn’t officially make any new year’s resolutions, but I did decide to be more consistent with my workouts, and I have managed to do that despite an absolutely insane month. Today I did resistance training in short breaks throughout the course of a half hour while I simultaneously worked on a grant application. It was literally the only way I could do it. I also had to cancel with my trainer due to weather last Saturday but did the workout at home.
I thought it was going to take a lot more mental effort and it hasn’t required much. I guess I am a little more motivated now that I see myself getting stronger. I wouldn’t call my workout today easy, but it would have kicked my ass a month ago.
I decided not to make any New Year’s Resolutions … and so far I’m keeping to that!
What paradox?!
I don’t really make Resolutions in any official way, like writing them down, or insisting on starting in January or anything. But I do usually look at a new year as a good a time as any to assess and set some goals, so I guess that counts. And my completely boring and predictable one is to lose some weight. Which I have not managed to do yet. Indeed I’ve put on weight since Jan 1.
I think every decade or so the human body passes some kind of checkpoint where it’s even harder still to lose weight, and I think that’s happened to me again, as my usual methods of reducing my meal portions is not getting results. Though I also have recently moved house, and bouncing back from the stresses of that means I’m content and not gnawing with worry, plus having a shorter distance to travel means my daily exercise has been nearly eliminated. So maybe it’s that.