Failing at New Year's Resolutions? Tom Connellan Proves 1% is All You Need to Succeed Face it: More New Year's resolutions fail than not. Yet we continue to make them year after year. We want to make positive changes. How can we achieve success with our resolutions? Author Tom Connellan says all we need is a structure that supports change, one percent at a time. Ann Arbor, MI, January 26, 2011 (Straight Line PR) -- The new year is now three weeks old, and about this time, many people have already begun to abandon their New Year's Resolutions. Resolutions rarely work, yet most people make them year after year, because they genuinely want to make positive changes. The problem, according to New York Times bestselling author Tom Connellan, is that a crucial piece is missing - a structure that's designed to promote success. Connellan, a former Program Director and Research Associate at the University of Michigan, says that "lack of a structure leads to failure every time." "Say you have resolved this year to start going to the gym for strength training," says Connellan. "Today you can lift 100 pounds. Tomorrow, you aim to improve your performance by 1%. You do it - no problem. By making just a 1% improvement every day, your improvement builds on itself. In only 68 days, you are lifting 200 pounds. Just by making 1% improvements, you have doubled your performance in less than 10 weeks. The same principle applies to any other improvements you want to make - in your personal life, raising your kids, or your career." Changing habits is hard. Asking the brain to suddenly change the way it's always done something can be one job too many. The good news is, habits can be changed, thanks to something called neuroplasticity. Learning something new forces the brain to grow new internal connections to deal with the new tasks. But it doesn't happen immediately. It takes at least 21 days for the brain to get used to doing something new and form those new connections. Choose one habit to change. Make a conscious effort to change it every day for 30 days. At the end of 30 days, well past the 21-day danger zone for relapsing, the new habit will be cemented into daily life.
Failing at New Year's Resolutions? Tom Connellan Proves 1% is All You Need to Succeed
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