Top ten Irish New Year’s resolutions and why they’re never kept

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January 1st is quickly approaching! What are your resolutions for 2012?

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A New Year, a fresh start, rebirth. One week in and how many of us have already broken our New Years resolutions? The answer is: most of us. But there’s no shame in it, we’re all in it together. There is simply an international lack of will power when it comes to New Year’s resolutions.

In 2009 Jonah Lehrer, author of “How We Decide” wrote “Willpower, like a bicep, can only exert itself so long before it gives out; it’s an extremely limited mental resource.”

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he said “Given its limitations, New Year’s resolutions are exactly the wrong way to change our behavior. It makes no sense to try to quit smoking and lose weight at the same time, or to clean the apartment and give up wine in the same month. Instead, we should respect the feebleness of self-control, and spread our resolutions out over the entire year.”

But remember the old proverb “A beautiful thing is never perfect” and anyway we can always try again next year! 

Here’s a list of Ireland’s top New Year’s Resolutions: 

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