50% of Mancs have apparently already given up their new year’s resolutions

We’re more than three weeks into 2025 now, and according to a new survey, half of Mancs have already ditched their new year’s resolutions.

New year’s resolutions are always made with the best intentions, and it’s not like we intentionally set ourselves up to fail with them, but more often than not, that tends to be the case – and now a new survey of 1,000 Brits carried out over the past few weeks has found that 35% of us have already admitted to giving them up.

That percentage rises to a whopping 50% when narrowed down to the people of Greater Manchester.

Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, and Glasgow are the other four major cities joining Manchester in the top five list of people in each area that have stopped their 2025 challenge early.

On the other end of the spectrum, it’s the cities of Southampton, Newcastle, and Edinburgh that are staying strong, with just 25%, 26% and 26% giving their new year’s resolutions up respectively, and some of the other northern cities on the list including Liverpool and Leeds.

According to new research from greetings card marketplace, Thortful, more than half of Brits (53%) expect to give up within the first three months of the year – with the hustle of busy schedules, work commitments, families, and social activities being given as reasons why.

When it comes to the reasons people provided for why they’ve given their resolutions up this year, lack of discipline tops the list at 43%, followed by just being too busy to consider them at 21%, and different mental or physical barriers in third place, as well as a change of personal circumstances and a lack of money also cited.

Looking forward to next year, it seems many of us want to reframe how we set our new year’s resolutions in the future.

According to the research, 32% of respondents want to “improve their existing qualities rather than set an unrealistic challenge” next time around, and 16% “feel like there’s social pressure to change in the new year”, when in reality, they “don’t have to.”

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Factoring in financial situations and setting realistic standards have been suggested as the key to new year’s resolution longevity.

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