New Year’s and the Challenges with Resolutions

The new year can be a time full of many emotions.Hope for what is to come; relief that the holiday season is over; sadness and grief as the holidays serve to remind us of those we have lost; joy to have made it another year around the sun. For most of us, we have been taught to think of the new year as a time to set resolutions. While these resolutions can often indicate the change we are looking to make in our lives, most New Year’s resolutions will not make it past mid-January. Why is that?