{"id":5661,"date":"2014-01-23T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T23:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:13:24","slug":"sticking-to-your-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/5661","title":{"rendered":"Sticking to Your New Years Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5662\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" alt=\"2011-year-resolution-400x400\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2014\/01\/2011-year-resolution-400x400-200x200.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><strong>By Natalie Waller&#8211;<\/strong>Have you ever heard someone say, \u201cIt\u2019s a New Year, it\u2019s a new me\u201d after the New Year? Maybe you\u2019ve said it once or twice.<\/p>\n<p>People are always making New Year\u2019s resolutions. They commit to being a better person, improving their health, or various other things. But why do people do this year after year?<\/p>\n<p>The end of the year is a reflective time for people.\u00a0 Hopefully they can be relatively happy with what the past year brought to them, but people are always looking for ways to improve. Resolutions set guides or goals for people to follow. People should always be setting goals. It\u2019s okay to have resolutions that are unreachable; it still can give people something to work towards. Studies done by psychologists even say that only 12 percent of people can follow through with their resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>So, back to the question: why do people continue to make resolutions year after year?<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Rasmus, a new mother and full time employee, said she makes resolutions each year. \u201cI usually make a resolution that involves my character; not lying, standing up for myself.\u201d She added that even though her resolutions seem easy at first, through the year she finds herself not following them.\u00a0 \u201cI continue to make them and after I break them, I still work hard to follow them for the rest of the year. It\u2019s my way of kicking my own butt to do something good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Hively, a Morningside student, says she makes the same resolution every year. She wants to improve her physical fitness. \u201cI know it\u2019s the same each year, but I always see space for improvement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether people make resolutions that are unreachable or the same one each year, they should be making them. Setting goals to improve any area of your life will give you something to work toward and make a better \u201cyou.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Natalie Waller&#8211;Have you ever heard someone say, \u201cIt\u2019s a New Year, it\u2019s a new me\u201d after the New Year? Maybe you\u2019ve said it once or twice. People are always making New Year\u2019s resolutions. They commit to being a better person, improving their health, or various other things. But why do people do this year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5684,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}