It is that time of the year when we contemplate our New Year's resolutions, make promises to improve our lives. The most common resolutions include eating healthy, losing weight, changing jobs, quitting smoking, and learning a new instrument or skill. Yet we know, how rare it is to keep the promises and most resolutions fail within the first few weeks. Counselling Psychologist, Urveez Kakalia explained why New Year resolutions fail and how can we succeed in keeping our resolutions.

1. Goal oriented approach isn’t always helpful
We often set our resolutions with an outcome or a goal as target to achieve. For example, if you want to author and publish a book by the end of the year, what is it that you need to do? Ms. Kakalia said, "Instead of formulating result oriented resolutions, it would be more sustainable to formulate resolutions that allow us to engage in the process of actually achieving those goals." In this case, it would do well to write 500 words every day if you actually want to accomplish your goal of writing a book in a year. We only control what we can do and not the results.