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Lighten the pressure
You don't have to assign the new year as the date with the pressure of being The Fresh Start. You can also set other points in the year, like your birthday or the first day of spring.
The best is to wake up on any random day and decide to do it. Give up drinking, or eat healthily or write a great novel.
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Don't attach meaning to milestones
You may attribute meaning to stages in your life - experiences you should have had at 16, 18, 20, 21, 25.
Things happen when they are supposed to happen. If you put in a fair amount of effort, there's little that would really knock you off course. Trust yourself to do what needs to be done,...
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Get excited, not expectant
We choose to block our lives into chunks and ascribe meaning to January 1st.
It's not bad to look forward to the next chunk and what you'd like to plan. But when you set hard expectations for things to happen in a particular way, you may get disappointed when they don't.
The beauty of...
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Desiring a clean slate in January
At the end of every year, we may look back on the past year and think about all the goals we had set but did not achieve. Then we may make inflexible goals and promises for the upcoming year.
But this natural instinct may also carry some potential pitfalls. Before January is out, you may f...
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Focus on the good
We should try not to see the previous year or the upcoming year as "bad" or "difficult". They're just numbers on a calendar. As you did the last year, try your best to achieve your goals in the coming year too.
Maybe we should stop being so hard on ourselves. The past year had many good an...
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The Fresh Start Effect
During the new year, our birthday or even the start of a school year, most of us have a feeling of a fresh start, a new beginning.
These 'fresh start' moments provide us with a temporary motivation to pursue our goals.
Equinoxes and the circadian rhythm
The spring and autumn equinoxes lie halfway between the shortest and longest days of the year. At these points, day and night are mostly even lengths all over the world.
These conditions may suit the human circadian rhythm - the daily cycle that affects the body's sleep, w...
Time Travel
You get better with money when you get better with time.
Write letters to your future selves, making this older version of you into a real three-dimensional character can make this sort of self-conversation easier to recognize the benefit of something, like an automatic sa...
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