The top New Year’s resolution for 2012 is to get physically fit. However, a survey suggests that three out of four people won’t follow through on their resolution, according to a survey by Franklin-Covey. And more than out one in three will break their resolution promise by the end of the month, so why bother making resolutions at all? When asked why they set goals for 2012, respondents said:
1. “Keeps me focused” -69%
2. “Gives me a sense of achievement” -61%
3. “Gives me a sense of direction” -58%
4. “Makes me feel good about myself” -51%
5. “Have always been a goal setter” -36%
6. “To set a good example for my children (to teach them to set goals)” -26%
7. “Only way I can get things accomplished” -19%
8. “Others around me have encouraged me to set them” -12%
January 3, 1959 - Alaska became the 49th U.S. state on this date.
1987: The first woman was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – it was Aretha Franklin.
The 101 number one song of the day was recorded by a guy who was suffering from a bad case of laryngitis but that didn’t keep it from winning an Oscar.
His doctor ordered him not to use his voice for two weeks but the singer pleaded with him to give him something to lubricate his throat because he had a recording session the following day to do a song for a big movie that was about to be released. The doctor finally relented and when the session was finished one of the studio executives commented that he sounded a lot like the movie’s star – Paul Newman. A few weeks later, his throat healed and he recorded the single version which you’re about to hear. But the raspy voiced version stayed on the film’s soundtrack and won an Academy Award. On January 3, 1970 it rose to number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 and it’s today’s 101 number one song of the day – B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”
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