WE ARE HORRIBLE AT THE WHOLE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION THING

According to a six-month-long study by Statista published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, by January 31, one in three of us will have already abandoned our New Year’s resolutions. By June, more than half of us will have given up.
– The most common resolution that’s broken: Losing weight and getting healthy, which one in five people say is among their biggest annual goals.
– Americans spend an average of $58 a month on gym memberships, despite the fact that 67 percent of us don’t use them.
– A study published in 2009 in the European Journal of Social Psychology found that it takes people an average of 66 days of doing something each day – like going for a short run each night – before it becomes a habit.
– Even those who do go to the gym don’t go often enough to make it financially worth it. A study of more than 7,700 gym members over three years by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that members who signed up for a contract with a flat monthly fee went to the gym on average of just 4.3 times in a month.
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* I go to the gym more often than that just trying to get my money back.
* Half of us will give up by June? Great. Swimsuit season.
* 66 days to develop a habit. That’s great news – I’ve got two more whole days before I need to give up meth.
* PHONE TOPIC: Did you have a New Year’s resolution – exercise, quite smoking, less computer screen time – that you’ve already broken?