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New Year’s Resolutions are a tradition most common in the Western Hemisphere in which a person makes a promise to himself for some kind of self improvement or act of kindness to others in the upcoming year. At the end of the Great Depression about a quarter of American adults made New Year’s resolutions. At the start of the 21st century, this had increased to 40 percent. Studies of New Year’s resolutions have shown that most participants fail to keep their resolutions due to setting unrealistic goals, forgetting about them or making too many resolutions.