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Can't keep your New Year's resolutions - try being kind to yourself

  • Written by Kristin Neff, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
imageMaking New Year resolutions?Kalyan Kanuri, CC BY-SA

Many of us will start out the New Year by making a list of resolutions - changes we want to make to be happier such as eating better, volunteering more often, being a more attentive spouse, and so on. But, as we know, we will often fail. After a few failures we will typically give up and go back...

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