Here Are 4 Ways to Accomplish Your New Year’s Resolutions

It’s good to remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint.

Jenny Krueger
3 min readDec 30, 2023
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Every year, 38 percent of US adults make New Year’s resolutions. For some, it’s a fun tradition with family and friends.

For others, they take their NY resolutions seriously by choosing specific goals they want to accomplish to help better their lives.

We’re not the first to set goals for the new year. The ancient Babylonians are said to be the first to make resolutions to honor the new year about 4,000 years ago.

For them, however, the new year didn’t begin in January but in mid-March, when the Babylonians planted the crops during a massive 12-day religious celebration known as Akitu.

They would promise the Gods to pay their debts and return borrowed objects. These promises are also considered forerunners of our New Year’s resolutions.

Unfortunately, only 9 percent will keep their resolutions all year long and 80 percent of NY resolutions are forgotten by February.

If you want to accomplish your NY resolutions, you need to take a different approach to how you work on them and the type of goal you’re setting.

Here are 4 ways to accomplish your New Year’s…

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Jenny Krueger

Lifestyle Writer | Chronic Pain Sufferer | Sepsis Survivor | Golden Girls Enthusiast, Las Vegas Fanatic & Horror Movie Lover. https://linktr.ee/jennybwriter