These Are The Top New Year's Resolutions That People Kept Last Year

By Malaika Tahir | 1 Jan, 2017

New year is a time for a lot of reflecting back on how the year went and many of us must have made new year resolutions, promising ourselves to try and change the things we don’t like about ourselves and try to become a better version of ourselves.

According to surveys, these are the top 10 new year resolutions people made in 2015 for 2016:

1. Stay fit and healthy or lose weight

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Majority of the people (approximately 70%) made the resolution to start eating healthy, stay in shape and lose weight if needed.

Regular exercise has been associated with more health benefits than anything else known to man. Studies show that it reduces the risk of some cancers, increases longevity, helps achieve and maintain weight loss, enhances mood, lowers blood pressure, and even improves arthritis. In short, exercise keeps you healthy and makes you look and feel better.

Setting reasonable goals and staying focused are the two most important factors in sticking with a weight loss program, and the key to success for those millions of people who made a New Year’s commitment to shed extra pounds.

 

2.  Spend more time with friends and family

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How much time did you spend with your family and friends?

 

3. Quit smoking

This is also something quiet a lot of smokers pledged. If you have resolved to make this the year that you stamp out your smoking habit, over-the-counter availability of nicotine replacement therapy now provides easier access to proven quit-smoking aids. Even if you’ve tried to quit before and failed, don’t let it get you down. On average, smokers try about four times before they quit for good. Start enjoying the rest of your smoke-free life.

 

4. Enjoy life

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Stop worrying, stop stressing over things that won’t matter in the future. Live in the moment.

 

5. Learn something new

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Even if its making a career choice or in fact changing it, learning how to play the violin, learning how to dance, or a learning a new language. People wanted to get out of the box and explore new things.

 

6. Be helpful to others

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People wanted to do more charity, join an NGO, do more volunteer work. Things that give you inner peace and satisfaction.

 

7. Spend less, save more

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Spending too much money without a plan always results in stress later on. So this making it to this list isn’t all that surprising.

 

8. Travel more

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Nothing can make you forget about your worries like traveling. You learn so much about the world, meet all kinds of different people and let go of any thought holding you back for a little while and just breathe, relax and explore.

 

9. Read more

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People, especially workaholics not only find it difficult to find time for their friends and family, but also for one of the most beautiful habits in the world; reading.

 

10. Fall in love

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People who have never been in love want to experience it for the first time and those who loved someone and then lost them, want to fall in love again. Love, the most talked about feeling in the world had to make it to this list.

 

It goes without saying that making a resolution doesn’t always mean that people are able to successfully follow them. According to research, 67% of the people fail to keep a new year resolution. Will you beat the odds? What will your new year resolutions be for 2017?

 


Cover image via: Al Karam

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