New Year Resolutions: according to The Talk of the Nation study, approximately 25% of people with resolutions give up by week one, and by six months, over 50% give up. How do the Barons compare?
B-CC junior Kate Campbell is proudly a part of the small percentage of people who never gave up on her 2022 resolution: making her bed every day.
“I followed through at the beginning of the year,” she claims. “I made my bed every [single] day throughout January, February, and March,” Campbell admitted that she lost momentum over the summer, but the start of the school year got her back on track. She believes making her bed helps her with everything else in the day. However, her dedication was hard to find in the rest of the B-CC community.
Take B-CC junior Timmy Lawson who failed to meet his 2022 goal to cut off sweets. His resolution neither started nor ended well because Lawson only created it after noticing how “everybody else made a resolution.”
Lawson, like others, faced temptations early in the game and exclaimed his solution was “finding loopholes, where [he] would pretend something isn’t actually sweet.” For instance, he would tell himself that a cookie was not sweet and eat it. This pattern went on for a few weeks until he gave up entirely.
But don’t be too quick to judge. It is day five of 2023: have you kept yours?
If you have, we are rooting for you to beat the odds!