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Slow-anuary: why I'm ditching the resolutions and making January 2024 my warm-up month

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For reasons I long believed in myself, January has long been considered the perfect month of the year to leap into action, kickstart new habits and go after our dreams. But what if we've been getting it wrong all along?

You don't need a scientific study, really, to know that don’t work: 90 per cent of them end up failing and more than half of them have been forgotten by the time we hit February. Perhaps expecting ourselves to have the energy to go after new dreams and projects when we are in the midst of winter and only just recovering from the exhaustion of Christmas is, in fact, just setting us up to

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