New Year's resolution not sticking? Here's why

Have you vowed that this will be the year you will lose weight, eat healthier, make better financial decisions, quit smoking or simply delve into self-improvements? And if you made such a New Year's resolution, have you stuck to it now that we're weeks into 2018?

According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, about 58 percent of Americans make these resolutions with only 9.2 percent of people saying they were successful in achieving their resolution at the end of the year. Many of us fall off the bandwagon within the first week.

Why do we fail to maintain our resolutions throughout the year? The answer is quite simple. Immediate results are paramount to us, and their value is far more important than future fulfillments.