As December draws to a close, and a whole new decade is on the horizon, many of us find ourselves in a more reflective mood than most months.  The closing of a year (or in this case a decade), naturally draws us to look back over the last 365 days, mentally reviewing the good, the so-so and the never-to-be-repeated moments of 2019.  Whilst gratefully there will be a whole host of happy memories in amongst the list, for most of us, our brains are hardwired to focus on the negatives or the “room for improvement”. With the start of the new year feeling like a symbolic clean slate, and the awareness of what we could do better fresh in our minds, thousands of us this week will decide on our resolutions for 2020.  

It all seems so logical, positive and even driven.  Proactively trying to make something bigger and better out of our next turn round the sun.  But if it's all so instinctive, why is it that only 1 in 10 of us will keep our promises to ourselves and 66% will give up before we’re even done with January?