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The Evolution of New Year's Resolutions: From Tradition to Transformation

Explore the history and modern-day significance of New Year's resolutions, delving into why they persist despite high failure rates. From religious origins to secular practice, discover the global tradition of self-improvement in the new year.

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The Evolution of New Year's Resolutions: From Tradition to Transformation

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  1. New Year, New You…

  2. The History of New Year’s and Resolution Today, resolving to change and improve yourself and your life is an almost unavoidable part of the transition to a new year. Though it’s a pretty well document fact that most New Year’s resolution fail, we keep making them – and we’re not alone. The custom of making New Year’s resolution is most common in the West, but it happens all over the world. Take a look back at when and why the New Year’s resolution tradition got started, and how it’s changed over the course of history. http://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions

  3. New Year’s Resolutions Despite the tradition’s religious roots, New Year’s resolutions today are a mostly secular practice. Instead of making promises to the gods, most people make resolutions only to themselves, and focus purely on self-improvement (which may explain why such resolutions seem so hard to follow through on).

  4. New Year’s Resolutions According to recent research, while as many as 45 percent of Americans say they usually make New Year’s resolutions, only 8 percent are successful in achieving their goals. But that dismal record probably won’t stop people from making resolutions anytime soon – after all, we’ve had about 4,000 years of practice.

  5. Can you make a resolution? Since we just celebrated New Year’s, let’s make a resolution or New Year’s goal. • What is one thing you want to improve within your school life? • What is one thing you want to improve in your life? The resolution or goal doesn’t need to be a big change but a change that you can manage and try to be successful in achieving.

  6. Examples • I plan to be more kind • I will help my parents around the house • I will learn to be and be more responsible for myself. • I will be an amazing person!

  7. Write Your Goal Down The saying goes, if you write your goal down you are 10 times more likely to achieve it. In your Hawk Homeroom journal write you goals. If you would like share with a partner.

  8. Resources: History Channel: http://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions

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