It is a common tradition for people to make a resolution at the beginning of a new year, something to look forward to and work towards. However, does this actually do anything?

Making a New Year’s Resolution is what everyone does to make themselves think that they will actually accomplish something that year, but everyone knows deep down that this goal will not come to fruition. 

Instead, they just convince themselves (and others!) that they will achieve their resolution in some time frame—either that they’ll lose x amount of weight in x about of time, or maybe they’ll start eating healthier by March—but they won’t. No one ever does.

Maybe the odd person here or there actually goes through with it. The majority does not. It’s just the way things go.

So why are we lying to ourselves?

It might be wanting to be in control of their body and their mind, but it takes just as much control to not lie to yourself as it does to lie to yourself. It might be the idea that humans are strong enough to resist urges that will diminish our goals; in reality, though, we’re really not.

Stopping this tradition of resolutions will stop the disappointment we feel when we fail.