Now that the glitter released at midnight across the country on New Year’s Eve has settled into every nook and cranny, it’s time to get started on those resolutions. According to a poll conducted by NPR in partnership with PBS NewsHour and Marist Polls, a cool 44 percent of adults have resolved to improve themselves in some way in 2019, and the most common resolutions are largely in line with America’s cultural obsession with weight wellness. Over a third of those surveyed singled out exercise, losing weight, or eating healthier as their goals for the new year. (Further down the list was being a better person, but of course that’s hard to measure on a scale and even harder to buy.) According to experts, only about 8 percent of people who make resolutions will actually keep them, and there exists a whole world of service pieces on how to make and keep lasting resolutions. But I’m here to tell you that the real secret, at least for the most common resolutions of exercising consistently and eating healthier in the pursuit of losing weight, is pretty simple: just be rich.
from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2TwDDT6
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