gym membership whole30 finally joining that dating app it's time for new year's resolutions new year new me right wrong but everyone i know is doing a new year's resolution so i should too right no did you read the title of this video absolutely not eighty percent of people who make a new year's resolution will abandon it by the second week of february and certain resolutions are even harder to keep like fitness or losing weight a social network for athletes looked at user fitness records over the month of january they found that u.s users were likely
to bail on their fitness resolutions by january 12th according to forbes the number of new year's resolutions that are actually achieved eight percent those numbers don't look good why do we suck at resolutions well to start with they're often vague and hard to measure consider the popular resolutions get in shape what shape hourglass square octagon travel more okay where exactly how long you know there's a pandemic going on don't you have more sex okay with whom yourself let's be realistic no one can follow through with stuff's that broad if you want to hold yourself accountable
you have to be more specific another reason resolutions fail because we don't just need to change our behavior we need to alter our consciousness [Music] [Applause] but seriously behavior is hard to change when we haven't mentally prepared to do so humans hate change because we don't like to abandon what's comfortable to successfully change you need to know why you're changing you want to quit smoking think about why you smoke is it stress there might be something else you need to address first and if you're pursuing a new year's resolution because of some sort of social
pressure you might not really believe you deserve to achieve your goal or are you afraid that by actually succeeding you might leave others behind what will your friends think you try hard finally resolutions don't succeed because if we don't see instantaneous results we already feel like we failed and we give up it's hard to commit to big change and if you have some hyper-specific idea of your desired outcome say you want to get in shape and that shape's an octagon if you don't achieve that a deal you might lose sight of the real ways you
benefited all right so is there any hope is there any way that my resolution can be in that eight percent that succeed maybe if you make a specific resolution say eat an extra helping of vegetables every day for two months and you have to know why you're doing it you have to really believe that extra helping of vegetables is going to change your life you have to commit to those vegetables don't ghost those vegetables marry those vegetables but most importantly don't make a resolution just because everyone else is doing it that's going to be a
waste of money and time what's the root cause of your unhappiness is it the stress is it self-esteem address the real issues and leave the fitness discounts to the suckers [Music] [Music] you
