Katherine Kelly Quotes

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I have a bad history with resolutions! I don't think I have kept up even one of them so far. Once, I promised to myself that I would wake up at 6 A.M. every day - it didn't even last for a week.

Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.