Name: Therapists tips for sticking to New Years resolutions
Uploaded: 2026-01-01T01:22:47.843Z
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Description: Lisa Palmer, a psychotherapist and founder of the Renew Center of Florida, joins CBS News 24/7 to offer tips on how people can stick to their 2026 goals and resolutions.

Lisa Palmer, a psychotherapist and founder of the Renew Center of Florida, joins CBS News 24/7 to offer tips on how people can stick to their 2026 goals and resolutions.

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As the new year approaches, research shows that while about half of Americans make New Year's resolutions, fewer than 10% ultimately achieve their goals. Dr. Lisa Palmer, a psychotherapist and founder of the Renew Center of Florida, discussed effective strategies for maintaining resolutions, highlighting the importance of changing one’s mindset and aligning goals with personal purpose.

Dr. Palmer advises starting with motivation, believing in one’s capability, and seeking support or coaching if needed. She emphasizes resilience, giving oneself grace after setbacks, and practicing gratitude to maintain momentum and positivity throughout the year.

Therapist's tips for sticking to New Year's resolutions

Just hours away from 2026 do you have your New Year's resolution yet according to recent studies from Columbia University and Forbes health about half of Americans make New Year's resolutions only a quarter stay committed after a month and less than 10% actually accomplish their goals to talk more about how to keep those resolutions. Let's bring in a doctor Lisa Palmer, she's a psychotherapist and founder of the renew Center of Florida and renew me. They said thanks so much for being here why is it so hard for people to stay on track with these promises and how do we make more manageable changes. I know every year people come up with a list of their to do less than that it quickly falls apart after about a week or 2 right. And I think the key is changing your mindset, it's not really something people talk about a lot. But if we change our mind we can really change our life Lindsay. What are some simple steps, I mean I know for me personally I have been trying to do like a meditation have it like simple 10 minutes a day, nothing too crazy and I even find that to be too hard. I have all the apps what are some simple steps to create new habits so that is really ingrained every day. Right you have to have motivation and start with motivation again that goes back to changing your mindset changing your core belief systems and believing that you can that you're capable and feeling valued and feeling worthy and all of those things and going back to the changing your mindset and maybe getting the help and the coaching that you really need to stay motivated to stay on track and to create goals that are in alignment with your purpose because if you can do that you can stay on track longer and for a longer period of time and remember we're always going to have those pitfalls and fail sometimes that we want to rise after the fall they say fall 5 times stand up 6. So trying to keep that momentum get the coaching that you need and again work on your mindset so that you can align better in and really make those habits come alive and happen talk to me more about that giving yourself grace component that if if you do you know miss a couple of days of whatever your goal is to get back on that horse. Resilience is key right because nothing in life is perfect and so we want to remain present and always be aware of where we are today and try to bring our best for today and maybe your best for today is you're you know 85% yesterday, but also giving yourself. You know that pat on the back and being positive within yourself so building on your strength is so important and again if you do the same thing that you haven't gotten the results were in the past don't do those things again try something different because a lot of people get into this habit of mishandle difficulties we do the same thing we get the same result. So you want to try to check yourself do things different take small steps give yourself a pat on the back and be positive and stay in gratitude because gratitude is a state of abundance and in that state of abundance you can draw more to you and produce more and keep that momentum. I'm running out of time, but we have any resolutions this year. Health and happiness and being contentment and being in the the now here moment and being in a state of being because if you're in a state of being then you can pretty much accomplish anything a lot of times we try to do things we think we're going to do more to be more. But I think that if we can be in a state of being in gratitude and that's what I'm going to try to do more. I think that I'll be able to accomplish anything that I put my mind to doctor Lisa Palmer we appreciate you thank you happy new year. Happy New Year to you and make sure you stay with CBS news 24 7 for our countdown to 2026 you can ring in the new year with our year end special streaming tonight at 11 PM Eastern.

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