Did You Know?
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In this section we use this edition's theme to provide you with fun facts and recovery resources from the web. We hope you find them useful, but as always we encourage you take what works and leave the rest.
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Did you know that the top five new year's resolutions for 2015 are to "Work Out; Be Happy; Lose Weight; Stop Smoking and Unplug"?
Did you also know that while nearly 20% of individuals report keeping their resolutions for one year, 52% sustain them for just one month and almost 20% don't even make it to the second day?
Why do we struggle so much with keeping our goals and what can we do to improve the odds of seeing them through?
Two individuals who may help us answer those questions are Kelly McGonigal and Ray Williams. Kelly McGonigal, PhD and author of the book "The Will Power Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It", outlines strategies to harness your will power and give yourself the best chance at achieving your life and recovery goals. See her talk here.
Ray Williams, author and leadership trainer, draws on research from The Journal of Clinical Psychology and The Harvard business review, citing reasons why our resolutions fail and offers tips to help make them (or any other important life or recovery goal) work. Click here to read the full article.
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