New Year's Resolutions Often Set Us Up To Fail. Here Are 8 Tips For Success.

LOADING ERROR LOADING It’s that time of year! There’s nothing wrong with having these goals, she explained, but “sustaining them without genuine internal motivation will be challenging.” One example might be to exercise three times a week. “They’ll say things like, I want to lose X amount of weight, but the goal is really the habit change that will get you there.” Weight loss may be a result of creating new habits, but it’s putting those habits in place — for example, cooking dinner at home four nights every week — that you have to focus on first in order to get there. “Make more concrete goals, like, ‘I want to put myself out there more by joining a community group,’” Nasir advised. “Thinking about what you shouldn’t do or what you don’t want to do really activates shame, and that can become a big barrier for people,” Nasir said.