Happy New Year from the College of Westchester!
Are you among the 45 percent of Americans who make New Year’s Resolutions?
According to this article data from the University of Scranton’s Journal of Clinical Psychology, the top New Years Resolutions in 2015 were to lose weight, get organized, and spend less, save more. Of those people who set resolutions, only about 8% are reportedly successful in meeting those goals.
Whether your personal goals for 2017 are related to health, work, education, money, family, or any of the other areas of our lives we resolve to focus on at the start of the new year, there are ways to make those efforts stick.
Some of the basics:
*Choose one or just a few goals instead of many.
*Break large goals into smaller, measurable steps so you can track your progress.
*Put it in writing.
*Make sure it’s a goal that matters to you.
In a recent piece for Forbes, Nancy L. Anderson, CFP, offers up some suggestions for sticking to our New Years Resolutions this year.