Ringing in the New Year with New Year’s resolutions

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY-TV) As we get ready to enter a new year, locals already have their own personal New Year’s resolutions for 2022.

Most locals already have their New Year’s resolutions picked out.

“My New Year’s resolution for 2022 would be go to the gym and stay fit and get healthy. And exercise and eat healthy foods,” said Yuma local Vallory Grosch.

New Year’s resolutions are considered a tradition where we use the start of a new year as motivation to do something different.

“You gotta learn how to balance work and life and make sure you take care of yourself,” said Grosch.

When it comes to New Year’s resolutions it can be anything.

“My New Year’s resolution is to be able to help people, for me to be a helping hand to those in need,” said Yuma local Sarah Gonzales.

Coming up with resolutions can be easy but for most trying to achieve them can be challenging. 

“It’s okay to get out of your comfort zone if you can, feeling that anxiety and nervousness, anxiousness, it’s normal. if you feel like you want to do something and you feel those feelings of fear that okay to feel those feelings and still go for what you want,” said Grosch. 

By the end of the year, only about nine percent of people feel they were successful in keeping their resolutions.

But there's always hope that number will increase next year.

It's not too late to make your own New Year's resolutions, about one in four Americans say they're making a New Year’s resolution for 2022.