Turning the calendar over is an excuse to make personal resolutions for the coming year. The tradition of New Year’s resolutions dates back thousands of years to ancient Rome. Probably for that long, most resolutions have been forgotten about by February.

In my forthcoming book, “Burn Your Wish List! How to Stop Hoping for the Best and Start Planning for Success,”  I quote (with permission) a study conducted in 2008 by Cognitive Daily; it was a study on New Year’s resolutions with two hundred twenty-eight respondents. The study showed that only one week into the New Year, 41% of the respondents had already failed in keeping their resolutions.

That’s right… only 7 days after New Year’s Eve, almost half of the people in the study had failed in keeping their resolutions!

Here’s an interesting take which is the result of an online search for the origin of the word resolution: the word resolution is derived from the late Latin word “resolvere.”

Resolvere = Re + Solvere. In other words, “to solve again.” Isn’t that exactly what New Year’s resolutions turn out to be: something we try to solve again, and again, and again?

So what do YOU think about New Year’s Resolutions? Yes? No? Maybe so?

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