How to make – and keep – New Year’s resolutions and plan great goals for 2014

Christmas has come and gone, mid-January’s here and we’re all broke, fed up with the rain and feeling guilty about breaking all our NY resolutions already.

Popular resolutions tend to be to lose weight, go to the gym, quit smoking, drink less and spend less money. Not a very exciting start to the year. Perhaps it’s not surprising that a study by Cancer Research UK of 4,000 adults found that 39 per cent of people gave up on their resolutions in just two weeks with only nine per cent claiming to...