Flourish Health & Wellbeing Magazine - Dec23 - Flipbook - Page 7
Humans have always enjoyed
making New Year’s resolutions.
Historians claim that even
the ancient Babylonians
made resolutions at the
beginning of their calendar
year over 4000 years ago!
Fast forward to today and, according to
research conducted by comparison website
Finder, 72% of Australians – the equivalent to
almost 14 million people – set at least one New
Year’s resolu琀椀on at the beginning of the year.
Despite its historical popularity, we’re s琀椀ll
not very good at keeping our New Year’s
resolu琀椀ons. According to mul琀椀ple studies,
approximately 10% of people are successful
with the goals they set on January 1st.
So, why is this happening?
72%
10%
of Australians set at least one
New Year's resolution.
of people are successful with their goals.