![]() So, what were the top New Year’s resolutions? Twitter attempted to answer that question based on users’ tweets. Of course, this is far from a scientific study, but it’s still interesting. And in India, career goals were dominant. In Russia, meanwhile, education was the top priority. Visitors from Australia and Japan were looking for love. Looking at the map, health-related resolutions predominated in the US and Egypt. Then, Google mapped them and analyzed them, breaking them down into the following categories: health, love, career, finance, and education. Internet users from around the world were invited to share their resolutions. Or at least, that’s the conclusion you could draw from a 2013 Google Maps project called Zeitgeist. New Year’s resolutions vary around the world ![]() ![]() While nearly half of all Americans make resolutions, 25% of them give up on their resolutions by the second week of January. Nowadays 45% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Then the Romans also began each year by making promises to their gods. During the festival, the Babylonians made New Year’s resolutions to keep themselves in good standing with the gods. They called it Akitu, and it was a major festival that lasted 11 days. In this article, we will share with you the interesting facts about this resolution and give practical advice on creating an effective list of goals for the next year.Ĥ000 years ago the ancient Babylonians celebrated the New Year on the first new moon after the spring equinox. New Year’s resolutions are the perfect opportunity for all those who have failed to start making the changes that they said they would make next week, next month, or perhaps when winter starts. You might not have had those feelings when you were forced into creating this New Year’s resolution last month, but if you’re willing to do a bit of introspection, I’m confident you can find a reason to truly care about this goal.The New Year is slowly nearing, and with the holiday season already upon us many people are indulging in retrospection and reevaluating some of their life choices. You want an emotional attachment to your goals that gives you the ceaseless energy to pursue them no matter how tough it gets. When you’re waffling on your resolution, and feeling your motivation wane, you need to develop deep feelings about that resolution. In other words, if you can attach your New Year’s resolution to someone you love, and think about how your goal will benefit them, your brain can literally suppress negative thoughts and give you a much-needed emotional boost. And it wasn’t just maternal love creating this effect the same researchers looked at romantic love and found strikingly similar results. The researchers found that areas associated with negative emotions, social judgments and assessing other people’s intentions were suppressed. But perhaps even more interesting than the areas that were activated were the areas that became deactivated. When looking at their own kids, the reward centers in the mothers’ brains were activated as well as an area that’s been linked to pain suppression during intense emotional experiences (like childbirth). ![]() Mothers were shown pictures of their own infants and then pictures of friends’ kids, their best friend and other adult friends, all the while measuring how their brains responded. Researchers at University College London used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to demonstrate the neurological power possessed by deep attachments to other people (fMRI measures the change in blood flow related to neural activity in the brain). Based on the thousands of people who have taken the test “ Do You Set SMART Goals or HARD Goals?” we know that people with a strong emotional connection to their goals are anywhere from 1.3 to 1.8 times more likely to successfully accomplish their goals than people with weak connections.Ĭan you actually develop a deeper emotional to a goal even if you didn’t feel one when you first announced it? Yes, and you’ve got to force yourself to first think through “Why do I really care about achieving this goal?” You should look for all the possible ways this goal could benefit you and make your life better.īut then, you need to think through all the ways that your New Year’s resolution could benefit the people about whom you care most deeply.
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