A new year is less than a week away. A new year means new goals and millions of new year’s resolutions, most of which we all know are unreasonable and doomed to fail before they begin. Others might last for a few days, even weeks in some instances, but the majority will never come to fruition for one simple reason: resolutions are hard to keep.

Working toward a new year’s resolution is a long road paved by gym memberships, unread books, and boxes full of unused nicotine patches. The problem is that people think they are like a light switch; that they can change their health patterns, mind sets and daily rituals at the blink of an eye. It’s not an impossible task, mind you, but let’s not sugar coat the likelihood. For most people, resolutions are made to be broken. It’s a dumb age-old tradition they follow with the hope of bettering themselves but ultimately, they fall short.