Resolution Solutions - Part 1

Happy new year, everybody. It's officially 2026, and this is classically the time of the year people reflect back on the previous year, take a little inventory of how that went, and then think about changes they might want to make in this new year. We classically call those resolutions. And resolutions are great. They're usually all very good things. Now, I did a little search here, and the top five things, the most common new year's resolutions are in this order, health and fitness, financial goals, personal growth, relationships and lifestyle, and then career and productivity at number five there.

Again, these are all fantastic goals. I wish all of them would happen for everybody. But here's the funny thing. If I were to do this search next year or last year, it would've been the same exact things top of the list every single years, which means resolutions don't work. In fact, I looked up the stat on this, too. Check this out. 80% of New Year's resolution goals fail by mid-February. In fact, 20 to 25% of people abandoned their goals within the first two weeks.

I would love to see it if we all achieved our resolutions this year. And there's some very definite reasons why resolutions don't work. They're often too vague, doing too much too fast, not actually putting any structure or intention behind it, and then something they call no identity shift, meaning you didn't become the person that you needed to be to achieve the goals you wanted to achieve.

And so I encourage you all to stay tuned in next week's video where I'm going to dive deeper into solutions for the resolutions so that they actually happen for you in this coming year. And it can be your best year yet. I look forward to seeing you on that video.

Be Well

Dr. Tony