It's almost New Year's, and many of us are considering our resolutions for the coming year. What changes do we want to implement? What improvements are we hoping to make? Unfortunately, according to research done by John Norcross at the University of Scranton, twenty-five percent of people abandon their New Year's resolutions after one week. Sixty percent do so within six months. The average person makes the same New Year's resolution ten separate times without success.