new years resolution
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New year wellness culture
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With every new year comes new year’s resolutions as many see Jan. 1 as the perfect starting date for their journey of reinvention and improvement. Although new year’s resolutions are the cause of overcrowded gyms, cringey Instagram posts and diet fads, individuals working to better their lives should not be seen as a negative. …
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Exploring the idea of “new year new me”
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I have officially flipped my calendar to the month of January and with that flip into the new year, new resolutions for the year are here. We collectively agree that the new year is the time to get ourselves and our surroundings aligned, to be better than the year before. I understand the sentiment of…
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Editor’s Note: New year, same me
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With each passing year, I’ve always set impossible standards and “resolutions” for myself to meet in order to improve myself. Inevitably, these resolutions have been too broad and grand so that I can never accomplish them for more than a month or a few weeks at a time. I’ve typically seen this as a failure,…
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Let your guilty pleasures no longer be guilty
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A lot of the things I enjoy in life may be things that the average person might find strange or weird. To fall asleep every night, I love listening to YouTube videos of people tapping on random items, also known as autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. I don’t like listening to people eat, but…
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Jumping head first into New Year’s resolutions isn’t a good idea
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Last Monday, I foolishly left my warm house and walked down to the gym in Antarctica-like weather, for a quick workout. I say “foolishly” not because working out is stupid, but because it’s January and all the people who have the “New Year, New Me” mentality are ALL there. These are the people who, at…
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New Year resolutions to kick off your semester
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New Year, new me, right? Whether you’re for or against New Year’s resolutions, the beginning of 2018 represents a fresh start and an opportunity to become a better more authentic you. I, for one, have never been into the big New Year’s plan things, but there are some habits that I’ve been meaning to pick…
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Arresting the guilty pleasures and why they’re not so guilty
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It seems ridiculous that our culture has conflated the feelings of shame with the feelings of pleasure when it comes to our tastes in entertainment, but here we are. The idea of the “guilty pleasure” has become an everyday thought. It’s pronounced — no matter who you come across, no matter what walk of life…
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Exploring the underlying benefits of healthy living
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Every year, along with thousands (if not millions) of others, I make a New Year’s resolution to “get fit,” “become healthy” or “lose weight.” If you can relate to this, here is one more reason why you should try again this year: by achieving your fitness or health goals, you may be giving yourself some…
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