Will You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions?

You may want to lose weight. Or take up a new activity. Or learn new skills to apply to old activities. Whatever your New Year’s resolutions, there are some things to watch for if you want to start off right. Find out if you’re going to take your best self into this new year.

New Year's Resolutions

New Year's resolutions can be a great way to jumpstart your quest for self-improvement. But, impossible or overly broad ones could backfire and make you lose your motivation. Maybe you're working with common New Year resolution ideas. Maybe you're trying something new this year. Whatever your goals, make sure that you're set up to achieve them. Take this quiz and see whether you're good to go--or whether you may need people you trust to give you a little extra help editing your list of ideas.

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Question 1/10

How many New Year s resolutions do you have?

10-15
1-2
5-10
3-5

Question 2/10

Who have you told about your New Year's resolutions?

The voices in my head
The friends and family that I count on to help with emotional support
My diary
My best friend

Question 3/10

Your New Year's resolution is...

Broad and open-ended. For example, losing weight
Specific and open-ended. For example, practice the flute twice a week
Broad and closed-ended. For example, make more money before a European vacation in May
Specific and closed-ended. For example, lose ten pounds by next New Year

Question 4/10

What inspired your New Year's resolutions?

I was inspired by something I read on social media.
They're related to important goals I know I can achieve with a little extra motivation.
Every person at the New Year's Eve celebration had to come up with one and share it with people.
My significant other/family/friends set me a list of goals.

Question 5/10

In order to meet your goal, you need to...

Learn a new set of skills and then apply them to a long-term project
Change one big part of your way of life
Learn how to become a fundamentally better person in all ways
Use existing skills and ideas in a new way

Question 6/10

How often do you intend to measure your progress?

Every day at the same time
The first of every month
Every week on the same day
Every year

Question 7/10

When it comes to resolutions from past years, you...

Have a proven track record of success
Can't remember them very well
Think you know how to apply the lessons from previous failures
Want to try the exact same things this year, even though they didn't work before

Question 8/10

When you think of your New Year's resolution, you feel...

Tired
Energized

Defeated
Content

Question 9/10

When did you make the plan that details how you intend to get from here to there?

Plan? What plan? You need to be free to figure it out as you go along.
You have yet to start making one, but you intend to get going soon.
You like to take your time, so you started to work on it in early December.
New Year's Eve

Question 10/10

If at first, you don't succeed...

Try, try again
You may need to edit either your resolution or your plan but intend to keep the general theme
Why bother?
You should probably find a different goal and pursue that instead

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Will You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions?