Intentions 2015 Less stress, more time

Top resolutions for 2015: less stress, more family

01/01/2015

The turn of the year is traditionally the time of good intentions. For years, however, these hardly change. Most Germans want to avoid stress and have more time for the family. Sport and a healthier lifestyle are also mentioned by many as projects. Unfortunately, the good intentions in the new year are quickly forgotten.

Good intentions at the turn of the year
As every year, most Germans make good intentions at the turn of the year. According to a representative Forsa survey, 60 percent of Germans want to make their lives less stressful in the future. This informed the health insurance DAK health as the principal of the study. In addition, the majority of the population (55 percent) suggests spending more time for family and friends. Just as many want to move more and do sports. These goals have been high on the list of top New Year resolutions for years. Often in this context expert advice can be heard, which give tips for reducing stress or point out the health-promoting effect of regular exercise.

Healthy diet and reduce weight
In the fourth place, the intention is to take more time for themselves (48 percent) and just as many want to eat healthier. 34 percent of respondents have set their sights on weight loss. Experts often give tips on these intentions. For example, aromatherapy can help reconcile soul and mind. Healthy nutrition and weight loss is advised by nutrition experts and physicians throughout the year anyway, for example, to reduce the risk of high blood pressure or diabetes.

Top ten good intentions are repeated
28 percent of citizens want to be more economical and 15 percent of them want less television. Also, 15 percent said spending less time on their cell phones, computers and the Internet. 12 percent want to drink less alcohol. According to a news agency dpa, the top ten good intentions are repeated year after year, and their popularity also fluctuates little, according to surveys from previous years. But whether they are redeemed is another question.

Berliners last a particularly long time
According to the information, at least 39 percent of the respondents remembered that they had also planned for 2014 something. About half of them (52 ​​percent) said they had been on the resolutions for more than three months. Berliners said they were particularly consistent: 64 percent of them stated in the survey that they had lasted for at least a quarter of a year. But also the people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (62 percent) and the Thuringians (58 percent) attested to a strong stamina.

How to make it better in 2015
Bremer, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate threw their good intentions over the pile faster. Only just under half (48 percent) of them said they had followed them for more than a quarter of a year. The psychologist Sabine Gregersen from the BG for Health Service and Welfare (BGW) in Hamburg explained how to make it better in 2015: „The first success factors are already the right choice and formulation of good intentions“. It should be directly implementable and measurable what to do. „For example, being healthier is far too general“, so the expert. Much better would be resolutions like „Eat at least a portion of fruit every day“ or „jog three times a week for half an hour“. (Ad)

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