Only 8% Attain Their New Year’s Resolution – Words of Solace for the Rest

The time of year is once again upon us when we ask the perennial question, what changes do we want to make in the coming New Year.

Because humans are dreamers, many of us will make at least one New Year resolution, committing to changes we have no realist possibility of keeping.

Exercising and losing weight is the number one New Years’s resolution

Knowing exactly what you want to accomplish and how you will do it can help increase your chances of success, but 80 percent of New Year resolutions have failed by January 20, with only eight percent successfully achieving their New Year’s resolutions.

For the per-annul optimists, the other 92 percent, who resolved to commit but for whatever reason/s did not achieve the set goal/s, the following ten quotes may help soften the bitter reverberation of the perennial “perhaps next year.”

“What a waste my life would be without all the
beautiful mistakes I’ve made.”
― Alice Bag

“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what
we really are.”
― Jean-Luc Picard

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they
make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes”.
― Oscar Wilde

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit.
No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a
man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class…”
― Simone Elkeles