New Year Resolutions: Do we really follow them??

New Year resolutions are the promises we make for self improvement to be followed in the New Year. Making resolutions is easy but following them is way tougher. It is a proven fact that 80% of people who make resolutions never end up following. New Year resolutions are made with a motive of self improvement but understanding the essence and living up to promises becomes tough for everyone. Some common resolutions made by people include:

• Work on physical well-being: eat healthy food, lose weight, exercise regularly, eat better, drink less alcohol, quit smoking, stop biting nails, get rid of old bad habits
• Think positive, laugh more often, enjoy life
• Work on  financial stability: get out of debt, save money, make small investments  to secure future
• Less partying and more time to family
• Improve at career front: perform better at current job, get a better job, establish own business
• Work on  improving grades, get a better school, learn something new (such as a foreign language or music), study often, read more books, improve talent
• Improve self: become more organized, reduce stress, be less grumpy, manage time, be more independent, perhaps watch less television, play fewer sitting-down video games
• Take out time for holidays
• Delete account from social websites for individual reasons
• Volunteer to help others, practice life skills, use civic virtue, give to charity, volunteer to work part-time in a charity organization (NGO)
• Be more open and try to get along better with people, improve social skills, enhance social intelligence
• Make new friends
• Spend quality time with family members
• Settle down, get engaged/get married, have kids
• Try foreign foods, discovering new cultures  
• Pray more, be closer to God, be more spiritual etc..

All these are just few examples of some resolutions that we make on New Year. Everyone has his/her own reason to make resolutions. Although everyone is fully motivated in the beginning of the New Year but as the time speeds up the resolutions go for a toss and everyone gets busy with their routine life. To live up to these promises one must be strong willed and focused towards the goals. There are many ways to remind ourselves of the resolutions that we make, we can put reminders in our cell phones, we can make a list and paste it on the wall so that we can see it every day, we can tell our close people about our resolutions so that they can watch over and remind us whenever needed etc.  So there are many ways to stick to our resolutions but given the fact that our will is strong and we genuinely want to fulfill our promises.