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New Year’s resolutions usually fall by the wayside, but there is a better approach to making real changes

  • Written by Michele Patterson Ford, Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
New Year’s resolutions usually fall by the wayside, but there is a better approach to making real changesResolutions often rely on willpower to push through or follow through, but research shows they usually don't work. Guillermo Spelucin Runciman/iStock via Getty Images

How are your New Year’s resolutions going? If you’ve given up on them, you’re not alone.

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