Something worth thinking about...

I was reading a blog over at SparkPeople, and a good question was posed by its author...

Why is it that we wait until January 1st to make resolutions over any other day of the year?

I think some people wait until January 1st because they feel it's what they are "supposed to do. I think it's also easier for us to look at the calendar, and go, okay, here is where I am on the 1st day of the year, and here is where I want to be by the last day of the year. It's something concrete for us to look at to judge where we are, or to look back upon the following January 1st to see where we went errant.

On the other hand, if we set a goal such as a birthday or family/class reunion, it's not necessarily on a 12-month standard calender that we can physically look at as easily as we can when going from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st.

Could this be part of why we wait to make resolutions, because it's an easily referable timeline?