The New Year often makes people want to be a better version of themselves. According to YouGov poll nearly 4 in 10 LGBTQ+ America had a mountain of resolutions while watching Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen New Years Eve. TimeLife’s Senior General Manager Julie Brown said many of their fitness classes were packed on New Year. A new survey from Forbes Health found the top resolutions for 2024 include improving fitness, finances, and mental health. That’s all the good news for Queer America. The bad news is unless you have a great plan, resolutions often fail. Studies show resolution success ends on average at 32 days into the new year for 2 out of 3 of us. Perhaps it is not surprising that those studies show 1 out of 3 of us don’t survive our resolution through the first week. So we ask, where are you? Regardless, here are the experts' top recommendations to most of us who will give up our resolutions. First, ask yourself if you really wanted the goal in the first place. Second, resolution failure is not defined at Midnight New Years Eve. Make a new, perhaps exact same resolution today. Start over. Third, ask a friend to join you on the resolution. Success rates triple when you do the resolution with a friend or family member. And perhaps most important, stop shaming yourself and others. What was your resolution, how long can you sustain it? Have you broken it already? Pick yourself up and let’s start again. #Queer Up Gay Culture