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Daily Archives: January 2, 2024

Letting go of New Year’s resolutions

Posted on January 2, 2024 by admin
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In the podcast below from National Public Radio, Gregory Warner describes how he went from being obsessed with New Year’s resolutions to letting go of them. ‘Goal disengagement’ is the term; liberating yourself from old and repeatedly newly set goals, especially when, year after year, they remain unfulfilled.

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