A s the year comes to a close, you may be considering your new year’s resolutions.And if you’re single right now, some of those resolutions may involve dating.Whether you want to get back into ...

And yet, with our “New Year Resolution,” and the secret pleasure we derive from the failure to keep them, this counterculture bursts unexpectedly into the mainstream—if only once a year, and ...

I am not a New Year’s Resolution-ist. Frankly, the “New Year, new me” mantra has always felt reductive to me. I am exactly as insufferable as I was this time last year – if I’ve been less obvious ...

Jaclyn Gallo, a life coach, helps clients set New Year's resolutions. ... This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jaclyn Gallo, a 28-year-old certified life coach from Philadelphia.

Although research on New Year’s resolutions in particular is rather scarce, there is a branch of science that has been working to identify how to design goals that work for those who pursue them.

Podcaster and author of the new essay collection 'Happy to Help', out Jan. 7, Amy Wilson offers an alternative to resolutions: just say no.

A New Year’s resolution needs a concrete goal you can measure. “I want to get in shape” isn’t precise enough, Milkman said. Set a resolution to run 10 miles or to bench press an amount of ...

8 New Year's resolutions that you can actually stick to. Resolutions don't need to be sweeping declarations of action. They should be living concepts that you can change and tweak as needed.

While nearly half of Americans make New Year's resolutions, only about 25% of people actually stay committed to their resolutions after just 30 days, according to Columbia University. And even ...

Top New Year’s resolutions of 2025. YouGov analysis of 513 Britons’ most popular resolutions for the new year included: Save ...

Mr. Keizer is an author and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review. If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709 to ...