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Are You Sticking to Your New Year's Resolutions?

Studies suggest most of us have difficulty sticking to our resolutions. There are websites available to help us make our resolutions become reality.

As today is the second day of the New Year, has anyone broken any New Year’s resolutions yet?

If you have, you apparently aren’t alone.

According to a survey cited in the column Healthy Resolutions and How to Keep Them on Yahoo!, 35 percent of Americans break their resolutions before the end of January.

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After six months, 40 to 45 percent stick with their resolutions, according to a reported cited in New Year's Resolutions That Aren't Losing Weight on Huffington Post.

But not to fear. There are plenty of websites and online articles to help motivate us to slick with our goals.

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To find those sites, enter “how not to break New Year’s resolutions” or “how to keep New Year’s resolutions” into your favorite search engine.

For those of us how have yet to make any resolutions for 2012, USA.gov—the United States government’s official web portal—has a list of popular New Year’s resolutions. Among the resolutions on the Popular New Year's Resolutions page are drinking less alcohol, eating healthier, getting fit, improving financial status and taking a trip.

In addition to the list, the USA.gov webpage provides links to such government agencies as the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for advice on healthy ways to keeping resolutions.

Click here to go to that webpage.

Good luck in keeping those resolutions!

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