As January turns to February, we can all begin to settle into the reality that the new year is in full swing. But for some, this is accompanied by the uncomfortable realization that those New Year’s resolutions they made at the beginning of the year seem to have disappeared as the first weeks of the year passed.

Maybe you didn’t make it to the gym five times a week. Maybe your Amazon shopping hasn’t quite decreased to the level you envisioned. Maybe you still can’t keep your desk clean for more than a day or two.

Guess what? It’s OK.

The beauty of New Year’s resolutions is that there’s no contract, no legal obligation, nothing to absolutely bind you to completing them except your own subjective motivation. But with this comes the curse of New Year’s resolutions: the ease of giving up when there’s nothing really ensuring you stick with them, and the ever-increasing understanding that maybe your expectations were too high or were simply unrealistic for your lifestyle.

Only 8 percent of people keep their New Year’s resolutions, according to research by the University of Scranton. This figure alone can be daunting enough to serve as a perfectly reasonable explanation to drop your plans for the new year. Instead of resolving this by dropping the idea of New Year’s resolutions altogether, you can instead keep a few things in mind:

First, accept that New Year’s is, by and large, an arbitrary time to start to shift your lifestyle. For example, if your resolution was to go to the gym more, it’s important to remember that January is typically Iowa’s coldest month, meaning that leaving your house in any capacity can be difficult, or downright miserable. This isn’t to say that “go to the gym more” is an unreasonable resolution, just that this type of resolution is easily broken if you overestimate what’s actually possible for you to do.

Second, remember that it is OK to edit your resolutions. While completely dropping your resolutions after a month of no progress is tempting, consider evaluating what worked for you and what didn’t throughout the month. You still have 11 more months to meet your goals, and if using 2017 to kickstart a permanent lifestyle change is what you have in mind, that’s still a long time.

Finally, try not to see failing to follow your resolutions as a personal failure. If anything, that 8 percent statistic above shows the overall impracticality of many people choosing to make sudden lifestyle changes on the same specific date, not that each person simply wasn’t meant to make those changes.

Take some time to reevaluate which parts of your resolutions are feasible and which simply aren’t. When it comes to lifestyle changes, it’s all about what’s comfortable for you — and even as 2017 becomes less of a “new” year, you can still maintain that “new year, new me” outlook.