I’ve decided that the "New Year, New You" slogan I see everywhere is relentless and I’m over it. When I click the"unsubscribe" button on SPAM emails, I feel so happy. I'm not interested in the negative emails from EVERY business there is.
The "New Year, New You" emails are supposed to be motivating, uplifting and encouraging. Those emails are designed to sell gym members and juice cleanses at a time when they're most marketable and we're most vulnerable. The mass amounts of emails coming at me is crazy — while most of us are still polishing off the last of the Christmas cookies — it can make us feel as though we’ve already failed within the first few minutes of the new year.
Oh, and how can I forget the tremendous pressure of New Year’s resolutions — which suggest that we have so much to improve upon; that we need to be better. This is silly! I hate this "idea." We’re encouraged to set out a new set of goals, towards which to move to in the hopes of finding what we all want: happiness. 2020 hasn't even started and already, we’re exhausted, defeated and riddled with festive guilt. This seems ridiculous to me.
Here is a positive thought: instead of subscribing to what’s become a very tired narrative, this year, let January be yours.
You can start anything any time.
Happy New Year,
Thank you Jessica! I hate New Year's Eve and I think a big part is that I always feel pressure to start something or "improve" myself, which I try to do in January and then when I drop it by February, I feel like a big loser. Thanks for reminding us that you can start anything at ANY time of the year and still be successful! Happy New Year!
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You are not a loser! Just because it's January doesn't mean you HAVE to become a new person. Who cares what month it is? You make changes in your life because it makes YOU feel happy. The date doesn't matter.
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