In Texas, folks love New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t mean to burst your bubble but, if you chose one of these; you may not make it.<\/p>\n
I was hit and miss on New Year’s Resolutions<\/a>, then, about 15 years ago, I made one that has held up every single year since. The feeling of accomplishment is pretty cool and this year, I’m doing it again. My resolution? No more Resolutions.<\/p>\n Seriously, resolutions are great and the beginning of a new year is a great time to get ’em going. You’ve kind of got a clean slate. A new beginning. Blah, blah, blah …<\/p>\n READ MORE: El Paso New Year’s Resolutions<\/a><\/p>\n Some are easy, some are pretty tough but one common denominator is the fact that not everybody goes the distance. A buddy of mine’s “no more pot” resolution lasted exactly 15 hours. Midnight to 3pm. (I think that may be a record.)<\/p>\n He said it helped his hangover and, for what it’s worth, he did better with his “no more drinking” resolution. He got to the weekend with that one.<\/p>\n Which Resolutions Will Most Likely Fail?<\/p>\n According to Time<\/a>, these resolutions are among the ones that people most often fail:<\/p>\n Texas Cities Best At Keeping Resolutions<\/p>\n There’s a lot of advice on keeping your New Year’s Resolution <\/a>and moving may be on. According to a study by Wallethub<\/a>, these 3 Texas cities have the best odds when it comes to staying the course:<\/p>\n Austin #7Plano #18Houston #48<\/p>\n Locally, El Paso was #83 and Las Cruces was #128.<\/p>\n Top 3 Resolution Keeping Cities In The USASeattle #1Scottsdale #2Irvine #3PHOTOS: Inside El Paso\u2019s First-Ever New Year\u2019s Eve Star Drop<\/p>\n El Paso made history with its first Star Drop at San Jacinto Plaza, featuring live music, local DJs, and a celebration built by local businesses.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Courtesy; Iris Lopez, El Paso Winterfest, Christian Churches<\/p>\n New Year’s Eve Movies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Texas, folks love New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t mean to burst your bubble but, if you chose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,223,1631,1632,1633],"class_list":{"0":"post-111646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-texas-regional","14":"tag-weird-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}