BY : Michael Foust ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor
Just over one-third of Americans (37 percent) say they make New Year’s Resolutions. Among those, 59 percent say they want to “pray or attend religious services more” in 2024, an answer that tied for seventh place with “lose weight.”
The top six answers were: improve health (94 percent), exercise (88 percent), “spending more time in person with people you care about” (84 percent), diet/eat better (81 percent), “learn a new skill, challenge or hobby” (73 percent) and quit a bad habit (70 percent).
Other answers included “spend less time online” (51 percent) and “get more involved with volunteer efforts in the community” (50 percent).
“Americans feel about twice as hopeful as discouraged when they think about 2024,” a CBS News analysis said. “But it’s young people in particular who are the most hopeful, with two-thirds feeling this way.”
Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Americans under 30 feel hopeful about 2024. It’s 51 percent among those ages 30-44, 37 percent among 45-64, and 39 percent among those 65 and older.
New Year’s Resolutions, too, are more popular among young people, with 60 percent of those under 30 making them but only 15 percent among those ages 65 and over.
“The young are by far the most likely to be making resolutions for 2024, as opposed to older Americans,” the analysis said, theorising that “perhaps older Americans feel more complete, or set in their ways, or maybe age has brought the wisdom that a lot of us just don’t keep them anyway.”
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