New Year, New Post, New Excuses

Well I got the New Year off to a great start. I spent most of New Year’s Day recovering from New Year’s Eve. But that’s to be expected, right? It’s pretty much accepted to write off all of New Year’s Day. The real New Year begins on the 2nd; that’s when you put into affect all the resolutions you came up with, or the ones you are recycling from the year before that you never followed through on. (Like never ending a sentence with a preposition.)

Of course this rule doesn’t count if the 2nd falls on a Sunday, which is a well known horrible day on which to start any resolution or make any kind of life-change. Studies* have shown that New Year’s resolutions made on a Sunday are 83% less likely to stick, then those same resolutions that were started on a Monday or even a Tuesday or Wednesday.

So I will start my resolutions on Monday, where they will have more of a chance of sticking. That was actually my first resolution, to start my resolution on Monday, so if this one sticks it really puts a wrench in the study.

*Study conducted by Leana New Year’s Day 1994, 97, 99 and 2002.