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The best way to follow through on your New Year's resolution? Make an 'old year's resolution'

  • Written by Mark Canada, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University Kokomo
The best way to follow through on your New Year's resolution? Make an 'old year's resolution'More often than not, the best-laid plans for the new year go awry.Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images

If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution, your plot for self-improvement probably kicks into gear sometime on Jan. 1, when the hangover wears off and the quest for the “new you” begins in earnest.

But if research on habit...

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