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New Year's Resolutions: how to keep them, with a little help from the experts - BBC Three
While socially declaring your resolutions has some benefits of peer pressure and accountability, new research says it is better to keep it a secret.
Keeping it a secret acts as a psychological pusher in us to keep going.
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