It's that time of year everyone has made their New Year's resolutions and are now trying to keep them.  WIth only two days gone, I'm sure most people have at least made it this far.

According to the data pulled from Google by iQuanti by NBC, these are the most popular New Year’s resolutions:

Get Healthy: 62,776,640 searches, a 13.77 percent increase over last year during the same time period, when it was searched 55,177,290 times.

Get Organized: 33,230,420 searches, dipping by 7.41 percent compared to last year’s tally of 35,888,700.

Live Life to the Fullest: 18,970,210, spiking by 13.04 percent from last year, when it maxed at 16,782,030.

Learn New Hobbies: 17,438,670 searches, up 4.72 percent from last year’s total searches of 16,652,950.

Spend Less/Save More: 15,905,290 searches, up 17.47 percent from 13,539,500 in 2016.

Travel: 5,964,130 searches, down by 0.82 percent from 2015’s 6,013,550,

Read More: 4,746,560 searches, down 5.63 percent from last year’s 5,029,790.

Grand Total: 159,031,920, up by 6.67 percent from last year’s searches, which numbered 149,083,810.

I am not much of a New Year's resolution kind of guy, as I am more focused on just making it through the week than I am on quitting a particular vice. I'm not saying I don't have things I would like to do differently, it just doesn't usually enter into my thought process to name one and say on Jan. 1 that I am going to focus on it. Maybe I could pay attention to the second resolution most folks picked which is to be more organized. I don't know.

Sadly, Time Magazine put out a most broken resolution list and it looks pretty familiar. They are:

Lose weight and get fit, quit smoking, learn something new, eat healthier and diet, get out of debt and save money, spend more time with family, travel to new places, be less stressed, volunteer and drink less.

I guess, if I want a New Year's resolution, I could go down the list to pick out what would work for me. Obviously getting more organized is a good one and listing all the resolutions and finding out which may apply is a good first step. I can at least make it to Friday with that one. I already consider myself an organized person but there's room for improvement in anything, right?

I'm not much of a candidate for the most picked resolution, as I have been fighting the battle of the bulge for more years than I care to remember. Have you ever noticed after you make the resolution to lose weight people are always giving you cookies? No wonder it's the first to be broken. Have you ever tried to find anything healthy out of a vending machine? It can't be done. I eat a lot of meals at ball games as well, so the first ballgame of the year would do it for me.

I could fake it and say my resolution was learning something new, but that's part of my job so it might be a conflict of interest.

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