Along with champagne and fireworks, nothing is more quintessential to New Year’s than abandoning one’s best efforts at self-improvement. Surveys have found that fewer than 10 percent of Americans who ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - The start of a new year often comes with a fresh mindset and for many people, a promise to do things differently. But keeping those resolutions can be a real challenge.

Want your New Year's resolutions to stick? Research says to consider adaptive goals for success instead of all or nothing self-promises. Research reports about half the American population make one or ...

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If you make them, the odds are you’ll fail. But that hasn’t stopped people from making New Year’s resolutions in some form or another for centuries. You can blame the Babylonians for starting the ...

My name is Cori Ritchey, and I am an exercise physiology nerd turned fitness journalist, and the fitness editor at Women’s Health. When I’m not writing, editing, and researching fitness, I’m teaching ...

Do you follow the maxim "new year, new me"? It's a tradition to reinvent yourself as we complete a wrap around the sun. But how people choose to reinvent themselves - and why and when they fail at it ...

Do you want to make a New Year’s resolution for 2026 but don’t know what you want your goal to be? Here’s a look at some of the most common resolutions being made this year. A recent YouGov survey ...

Janina Steinmetz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

It’s the time of year when we all make promises to ourselves. I’m committing to read more, procrastinate less, and squeeze in an extra hour of piano practice a week. I asked other CEOs to share their ...

Nowadays, having a New Year’s resolution can seem almost quaint. Social-media influencers push self-improvement trends year-round: The spring has “glow up” challenges, as does the summer. Soon after, ...