Every January, a new year is celebrated and everyone gets super pumped about it. What will the new year hold, what achievements will we succeed as the human race and as individuals, and most importantly will this year be better than the last? And as New Year's Eve inches closer and closer, some may think to themselves, Wwait, what do I wanna change?" So resolutions come about, goals are set, and people get even more excited, "Of course I'll learn a new language, and once I know French I can go to France!" they think.

Well, this may seem familiar -- claiming a New Year's Resolution, getting excited about it and asking everyone, "So, what's your resolution?" in order to share what your own is. Only about 8 percent of people follow through on their resolution, so another familiar step for most is not completing their resolution, and I'm the same way. So where do we go astray?

First: You look forward to the New Year, "New Year, new me!" you proclaim sarcastically while simultaneously hiding how much you want that statement to be true. Will this be the year you cut the calories? Will you finally hatch open that Rosetta Stone and travel the world? Or will you become more loving to yourself and to others? The possibilities are absolutely endless.

Second: You stay up all night to ring in the new year with friends, family, and some strangers and maybe the party didn't exactly go as well as you'd like. That New Year's kiss never came, and the music wasn't all that great, but after some serious alone time in the middle of the party you turn to the confetti and reassure yourself, "This will be the year of change."

Third: The first day of the year comes about and you hit the gym (or the books depending on your goal) and you feel great. Nothing can go wrong, you will stick to it, you will achieve greatness.

Fourth: You tell everyone who is anyone how your second day is going. You've been to the gym twice, and you haven't had alcohol since the ball dropped in Times Square. You call distant relatives and check up on them just to tell them it's 48 hours into your goal and it's going swell.

Fifth: You start to remember how much free time you had before this whole resolution thing -- you had less laundry when you didn't go to the gym all the time, and you got to binge watch shows more frequently without all these language books taking up your time. You begin to question why you were doing this at all -- "New year, new me, what was wrong with the old me?" you whisper.

Sixth: You don't want to be just another statistic, another person to give up. So you force yourself to go to the gym, to read those books. "It only takes three weeks to form a new habit, right?" you cry to yourself as you lie in the bathtub with shaking muscles from leg day.

And this is the breaking point, this is where you decide if it's worth it to that new you.

I think it is. I think you can do it -- and if you can't that's ok too. It shouldn't take a new year to convince yourself you need to change, it's just a nice idea. What I suggest is writing notes to yourself each night, reasons why you want to stick to your resolution, why you want to be a new version of yourself. In the morning, repeat those reasons to yourself and motivate yourself to hit the gym or the books or what have you. Tell your friends, create a support system, and be a part of the eight percent.