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With regards to New Year's Resolutions, data shows that only approximately 8% of people actually achieve their New Year's Resolutions (Kruse, 7 Secrets Of People Who Keep Their New Year's Resolutions).
 

In fact, the science behind resolutions points towards the fact that we are drawn to resolutions that are inherently "better" for us. As a result, our mindset is to see these resolutions through (because they are better for our bodies) in a survival of the fittest sort of sense. The way science divides these resolutions up is in the categories of food, sleep, drinking, stress, and exercising (Bai, Scientific Reasons For Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions). 

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Long-term implications of resolutions:

Based on a 2-year study conducted with 200 respondents, only 19% of respondents kept their resolutions for the two-year time frame. What was even more surprising was that after the first week only 77% had still stayed with their pledges" (The Resolution Solution: Longitudinal Examination of New Year's Change Attempts).

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The ultimate secret to being successful with resolutions? Specificity. If your resolutions are not specific enough, they are bound to fail. Because of this lack of specificity in resolutions, it is oftentimes found that goal-setting is more successful because these goals tend to be less general. 

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Sources:

Kruse, Kevin. "7 Secrets Of People Who Keep Their New Year's Resolutions." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 09 Jan. 2017. Web. 

Bai, Nina. "Scientific Reasons for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions." UC San Francisco. N.p., 13 Dec. 2016. Web. 19 Jan. 2017.

 "The Resolution Solution: Longitudinal Examination of New Year's Change Attempts." Journal of Substance Abuse. U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2017.