68. Why it’s a good idea to avoid New Year’s Resolutions....

..and how to easily make LASTING change this New Year. ​I hope you had a restful festive period and are feeling energised to embrace the incoming year. ​ ​In this week's podcast, I talk about New Years resolutions and why they never work. ​ We all have the urge at this time of year to follow the crowd and set some resolutions. I know I used to get all fired up with my list. I’ll do it this time! Eat better, exercise more or learning something new were among my top resolution themes. But it never worked. I ended up failing and falling into shame and self-loathing. How could I have failed again? I had so much drive and determination. After decades of the same cycle, I decided to step away from this strange cultural phenomenon. I was shown in a journey that this particular ceremony (and it is a ceremony) is cursed by a cultural story of failure. And this just the start of the problems with resolutions! ​Join me this week as I discuss the toxic energy behind new years resolutions and some viable, long term alternatives to this story of perpetual failure. We will also meet Janus, the Roman God of beginnings and endings, after whom the month of January was named.