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Why you shouldn’t make a
2021 New Year’s resolution
Whatever you thought was the most challenging got turned upside down and uncertainty is
year of your life probably got challenged by the the running theme, is it time to finally ditch
dumpster fire of a year known as 2020. This year resolutions for something more useful?
brought so much uncertainty and fear that most Dr. Sophie Lazarus, a psychologist at the Ohio
of us are beyond ready to turn the page and State University Wexner Medical Center, thinks so.
jump headfirst into 2021.
According to Dr. Lazarus, after a difficult year, the
It’s a popular tradition to set New Year’s last thing we need to do is put more pressure on
resolutions at the beginning of the year. But since ourselves or set a goal that might not be realistic
2020 was a year unlike any other, do resolutions during a global pandemic.
even deserve a place on your to-do list? Many
people set resolutions in the name of good The problem with New Year’s resolutions
health or kicking some kind of vice, which seems There’s nothing inherently bad about setting
harmless. After a year, though, when everything a New Year’s resolution. Where things can get
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