Wired for Success  How to fulfill your potential  Why New Year's
Resolutions Fail  New Year's resolutions destined to fail?  The
start of the New Year is often the perfect time to turn a new
page in your life, which is why so many people make New Year's
resolutions. But why do so many resolutions fail?  Researchers
have looked at success rates of peoples' resolutions: the first
two weeks usually go along beautifully, but by February, people
are backsliding and by the following December, most people are
back where they started, often even further behind. Why do so
many people not keep their resolutions? Are people just weak-
willed or lazy?   Timothy Pychyl, a professor of psychology at
Carleton University in Canada, says that resolutions are a form
of "cultural procrastination," an effort to reinvent oneself.
People make resolutions as a way of motivating themselves, he
says. Pychyl argues that people aren't ready to change their
habits, particularly bad habits, and that accounts for the high
failure rate. Ano