I cringe at the new year’s resolutions in my teenage diary – but I’m glad I made them

Before setting your goals for 2024, dig out your childhood journals, says Glenda Cooper – the wildly unrealistic expectations, and embarrassing lists of boys you intend to kiss, may, in fact, guide your adult choices and strengthen your resolve in the year ahead

Damp squib: only 30 per cent of us will make a new year’s resolution (Getty)

New Year’s Eve. The time to say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the next, armed with a glass of fizz, a lump of coal – and, of course, your 10 immaculately composed resolutions.

What? You don’t make 10? Who are these resolution-makers who won’t fully commit?

I made my first set of 10 new year resolutions as a nerdy 13-year-old with a mullet and no social life, and, while both of those aspects of my life have hopefully improved, the list of 10 has remained constant.