December 2003

More people to focus on health in 2004?

More people will be working on achieving a healthier lifestyle, if a goal-setting Web site’s predictions come true.

MyGoals.com, a Web-based goal-setting company, predicts that 22 percent of New Year’s resolutions will focus on health and fitness. Last year, 24 percent of all goals related to health and fitness and the biggest goal category was careers.

"Things might actually be returning to normal," said Greg Helmstetter, CEO of myGoals.com. Last year, a staggering 27 percent of people's resolutions were career-related, an 18 percent increase from 2002. For New Year's 2004, however, a 9 percent drop in career goals may signal a return to business-as-usual.

"Deep concerns about jobs were so strong last year that career-related resolutions surpassed the usual top category of health and fitness, " said Helmstetter. "This year, a marked drop in job-related goals shows that people are starting to focus more on other areas of their lives such as family, getting organized, and fixing up the house. That's good news for everybody."

This New Year's health and fitness category (which includes ever-popular weight-loss goals) is expected to reclaim its title as the most popular category of New Year's resolution.

MyGoals.com's annual predictions of New Year's resolutions are based on the ordinary goal-setting activity of MyGoals.com users during the third quarter of the current calendar year. Five hundred goals, set by the site's users, were selected at random and tabulated to generate the trends outlined above. No survey was involved.

Source: www.mygoals.com

Mygoals.com predicts 22 percent of Americans will set health and fitness goals in 2004.

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