The history of New Year's resolutions

Studies show most New Year's resolutions are bound to fail, yet we keep still making them – and have been doing so since the time of the ancient Babylonians. Correspondent Mo Rocca examines the history of New Year's Resolutions going back millennia. He also joins correspondent Nancy Giles in looking back at their own attempts at resolutions from years past – and how did those work out?
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[steveconn]

Small resolutions best, but character is character. Just do what you can.

[thefeldgeister]

Mo Rocca's comment about not being able to get past Leviticus was HILARIOUS!!!

[smrk]

Read one book a year. That’s a good goal! One book. Any book. Read it cover to cover. It helps to find a book with 12 chapters 😃📕

[broaj]

As I listened to the report there was a bunch of history nuggets left out. The Roman calendar as originally started in March, named after the god of war. Roman soldiers did not fight in winter. After the month of August which was originally not the 8th month but was the sixth month. September, October, November and December were all based on Latin numbers 7 through 10 months. January and February were actually months 11 and 12. I found a website for it last year and I will share a link a little later today.

[janerkenbrack]

I think resolving not to make resolutions is even hard, because every year I think of some I want to try.

[frankmontano]

Thanks for sharing
Yes when something starts there is/are hope- is not meant to be perfect.

[brandongaming]

i love new year watching the ball drop!

[januszpawlus]

This segment introduced Nancy Giles to me and my New Year's resolution to watch for her on TV because I just love her way of expressing her opinions. She is very attractive physically and intellectually which is, in my opinion, very rare combination.

[rrfirefly]

Let me just say that Jane Pauley looks like dynamite standing in that Winter Wonderland set.
Time now to head to the store for some black eyed peas and cornbread.
My wish for your New Year: Good luck! You're going to need a lot of it for the next 12 months.

[flashflame]

I've been making the same New Year's resolution for over a decade now. It's simple: I don't make promises to myself that I know I am not going to keep.

[laurelmitchell]

So no one is going to comment on the fact that the calendar was changed and New Year’s was originally in March until it was changed to January in honor of Greek God Janus???

[artistlovepeace]

Didn't Trump teach us nothing? It doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't matter what you feel. You can just lie your way through life and people will believe you. Why ever accomplish anything?

[mittiejackson]

Nothing changed but the year your still broke with the same problems.

[tiboregoldberger]

In 2023 an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 0:19

[igorschmidlapp]

New Year's resolutions are just self-fulfilling failures...

My resolution is not to make resolutions...

[kittycat]

Janus(January) the two faced demon.
March is the real new year- BIBLE 1700.

[jarrodyuki]

quanutm wolrd lower class upper class and middle clas.

[cathiehutcheson]

Who says new year’s resolutions have to be for good? Why not evil ones?