7 Tricks to Making Healthier New Year’s Resolutions That Stick

Finding the fortitude to follow through on an important lifestyle change is easier with better goals

Getting to the gym is a common New Year's resolution, and it is easier to do if you make this goal more specific and maybe even give yourself a reward. WeStudio/Shutterstock

The end of the year is a time for reflection and making peace with the things in your life you couldn’t change.

Therefore, it only makes sense that the New Year would be about tackling the things you can change in your own personal act of carpe diem. Still, while more than 40 percent of the population will make New Year’s resolutions toward positive change, less than half of them will follow through within the first six months. Sadly, only 8 percent will have successfully met their goal at the one-year mark. The question is ... why?