The experts’ guide to making – and keeping – your New Year resolutions

Psychologists offer their best tips for staying on track in 2018, from taking on your challenge in the morning to cutting yourself some slack

" Don't think of it as a New Year resolution, says Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit - think of it as a new year plan. "Much more important than setting a far off goal, like running a marathon, is to set an immediate plan that you can start right away." Start with baby steps - running half a mile every Monday morning, for example - and you can work upwards.