Paul Hollywood Quotes

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.

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.

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

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

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.

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

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

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

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.

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

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.

I wish I were more disciplined.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

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 think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

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.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

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

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.