Peter Singer Quotes

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I wish I were more disciplined.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.