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Forget New Year resolutions, just focus on being happy

Celebration

Think about the things that instantly put you in a good mood and do them.

Photo credit: Pool

What you need to know:

  • Think about the things that instantly put you in a good mood and do them.
  • Decisions that are made under pressure or forced on you rarely hold.

About a week ago, I came across a New Year resolutions feature that didn’t depress me. If you are a ‘New year, new me’ person, you have probably read dozens of those by now, just like you did the previous year and others before.

You will agree with me that they all talk about the same things and give the same advice – join the gym, stop eating carbs if you want to lose weight, eat more white meat and vegetables, ditch the alcohol, drop your toxic friends, learn to say ‘No’, return to school and learn a new skill, walk away from toxic relationships, start budgeting, do one good deed every day, meditate… it is a long list, and there is nothing I have listed that you haven’t heard before or even tried to achieve and perhaps failed miserably.