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I study self-compassion, and my research and that of others show that how we relate to personal failure - with kindness or harsh self-judgment - is incredibly important for building resilience.

The older I get the more New Year’s resolutions look and sound more like the reflections of Narcissus in the pool of self worship.

It’s not that striving to be healthy and thrifty are unworthy desires; rather they are means to an end, and too much focus on these does not bring the quality of life we are searching for.

Inhale, exhale. Greeted by this prompt, I’d love to say I have no aspirations.

Ahhh the New Years Resolution. "Anything is possible!!!" "Carpe on your denim" or whatever that Latin phrase is. "Grab the Bull by the horns"... just try to avoid the goring.

Most of the time resolutions relate to ways we would like to change our life but have failed to do so far. If all we do is make the resolution then we are only reminding ourselves of our failure.