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CHANGE YOUR LIFE in 66 days!

If, like most of us, you make resolutions every year, promising to make big, sweeping lifestyle changes – eat less, exercise more, be kinder, work harder – then you’ll know how difficult it is to stick to new ways of doing things. Perhaps by now you’ve even let your plans for 2021 slide already.

But have you ever considered that, by being too ambitious, you’re simply setting yourself up for failure?

‘Trying to change too much, all at once,). ‘Research shows that it takes between 66 and 122 days to make a habit stick, but there’s more to it than that – the individual changes need to be small enough to guarantee success. Simple habits can be changed more quickly, while complex ones can take longer.’

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