Ellen Hopkins Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

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

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.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

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.!

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

I've gotten a lot more disciplined since dating Sue.

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.

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

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 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.

I wish I were more disciplined.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

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.

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

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

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.