New Years Resolution Statistics
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Hello there… Happy New Year! I hope you are looking forward to a prosperous and rewarding 2010. If there are things in your life that you are not happy with, you have the power to change it. Solutions are all around you.
I was thinking about how every year people make goals or resolutions and how most of those people no doubt do not follow through with those goals. So I decided to share some new years resolution statistics that I Googled.
- 45% of Americans usually set New Year’s Resolutions; 17% infrequently set resolutions; 38% absolutely never set resolutions.
- Only 8% of people are always successful in achieving their resolutions. 19% achieve their resolutions every other year. 49% have infrequent success. 24% (one in four people) NEVER succeed and have failed on every resolution every year. That means that 3 out of 4 people almost never succeed.
- Of those who do set resolutions (these add to more than 100% because some people set multiple resolutions):
- 34% set resolutions related to money
- 38% set resolutions related to weight
- 47% set resolutions related to self-improvement or education
- 31% set resolutions related to relationships
Two things immediately catch my attention. First, only 8% are always successful! It’s sad but people are lazy and lack focus. And they seriously underestimate their potential… or better yet, the potential outcome of taking action. If people would treat their goals seriously and work at them every day, they would get serious results.
And second, these new years resolution statistics show that almost HALF of resolutions are related to self-improvement or education. That means that people are hungry for knowledge for improving their lives. Still, what I’ve found with people, and even I have been guilty of this in the past, is that people will gladly absorb information but they will not do anything WITH that information.
New Years Resolution Statistics Summarized:
In summary, don’t become a statistic! In other words, don’t analyze and paralyze… just do! And do it with conviction and repetition. That is the only way I was able to become a successful entrepreneur. I spent too much time thinking about what I was going to do and not doing it. I wasted time and potential income waiting for the right moment. There is no right moment, except for NOW!
And with that note, have an excellent 2010 – you deserve it, don’t you?
