I cringe at the new year’s resolutions in my teenage diary – but I’m glad I made them
Before setting your goals for 2024, dig out your childhood journals, says Glenda Cooper – the wildly unrealistic expectations, and embarrassing lists of boys you intend to kiss, may, in fact, guide your adult choices and strengthen your resolve in the year ahead
Damp squib: only 30 per cent of us will make a new year’s resolution for 2024
New Year’s Eve. The time to say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the next, armed with a glass of fizz, a lump of coal – and, of course, your 10 immaculately composed resolutions.
What? You don’t make 10? Who are these resolution-makers who won’t fully commit?
I made my first set of 10 new year resolutions as a nerdy 13-year-old with a mullet and no social life, and, while both of those aspects of my life have hopefully improved, the list of 10 has remained constant.
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