The 21st Show

Keeping your New Year’s resolutions

Produced by Christine Hatfield
 
Fireworks light-up the sky over the London Eye in central London to celebrate the New Year on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024.

Fireworks light-up the sky over the London Eye in central London to celebrate the New Year on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali

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With the new year comes new year's resolutions. Maybe you want to get healthier, or spend less time with your smartphone, or finally learn to play that ukulele you bought during the first year of COVID-19. Now that we're a few days into 2024, how are your resolutions holding up? Do you think they'll last the year? Do you think they'll last the month? We received some advice on how to keep going.

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Ayelet Fishbach
Professor of behavioral science and marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Author, Get It Done: Surprising Lessons From the Science of Motivation