The New Year is only 23 days old – and many people haven’t thrown away any baggage, but rather the resolutions they made at the beginning of the year. We asked psychiatrist Dietmar Bayer what strategies are needed to persevere and why failure is not an accident.
“Good intentions are green fruits that fall off before they are ripe”: this is how the farce poet Johann Nepomuk Nestroy jokingly defined the ambitious desire for change in the 19th century. Many Styrians started 2024 with good intentions: losing weight, exercising more, eating healthier. Quitting smoking is also often at the top of the list. However, it’s difficult to break cherished routines quickly – which is why some people jettison well-intentioned goals after just a few days. We asked Dietmar Bayer, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapeutic medicine at Leibniz, why things unfortunately don’t always go the way you want.
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