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5 Ways to Mess Up Your New Year Before It Starts
The change of the calendar provides us a time to thoughtfully rewind through the previous twelve months: to inventory our decisions, to reflect on upon all we’ve seen and experienced and to make grand plans for the coming year.
Most of us find ourselves composing resolutions we hope will make us healthier, less stressed, and more focused—but those might actually be guaranteeing our misery and perceptions of our failure.
Here are 5 surefire ways to really mess up 2025 before it even starts.
1) Fix everything, everywhere, all at once.
There’s a pressure we put on ourselves at this time of year…
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