How are your New Year’s resolutions going?
If you’re like most people, those goals you set at the beginning of 2015 are already starting to fall by the wayside. But if you want to jumpstart your resolutions and keep them going strong, don’t beat yourself up. New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science suggests that pairing goals with positive self-affirmations could be key to helping you stick to your guns.
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“Our findings highlight that something as simple as reflecting on core values can fundamentally change the way our brains respond to the kinds of messages we encounter every day,” said lead researcher Emily Falk, director of the Communication Neuroscience Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication in a statement. “Over time, that makes the potential impact huge.”
