How To Keep Your New Years Resolution

How To Keep Your New Years ResolutionIts been 11 months since you made that new years resolution and now its almost time again. Once we get past the holiday season of excess cookies and extra spending, itll be self-improvement time again. Turns out, we might all benefit from a little helpat least according to a recent analysis in Psychological Bulletin. Having back upor an audiencemight be more important than we thought. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display(div-gpt-ad-1467144145037-0) ) Weve always known that keeping track of our progression is essential to making it. But overwhelming evidence now suggests that doing so in public is the most effective way to help us reach our goals.Dr. Benjamin Harkin analyzed 138 different studies and experiments about motivation and discovered that holding yourself publicly accountable and reaching out for the support of social media can make all the difference in whether you change your diet or change your diet and succeed at losing we ight.Bottom line its important to monitor your progress, butas Dr. Harkin writes some methods of monitoring are better than others. So go ahead and tell your friends. This year, try making your resolutions public. Be specific. Share your goals. Use social media to hold you accountable for keeping them. And make your progress public too.