2202: The Dangers of Self-Improvement: Why Most New Year's Resolutions Don't Work by Vironika Tugaleva

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Vironika Tugaleva talks about the dangers of self-improvement Episode 2202: The Dangers of Self-Improvement: Why Most New Year's Resolutions Don't Work by Vironika Tugaleva Vironika Tugaleva was born in Donetsk, Ukraine in 1988. Her early years as a misfit began her painful struggle with mental health. As she struggled with self-acceptance, anxiety, and identity, Vironika found solace in words and music. Her first book, The Love Mindset, won the Readers' Favorite silver medal for Best Self-Help book of 2013. Driven by an urge to spread light in the world, Vironika began to do life coaching, speaking, and writing in the personal growth field. In 2014, Vironika sold her things, left Toronto, and became a digital nomad. She launched her 2nd book in 2017, The Art of Talking to Yourself. Currently, Vironika is working on a poetry book, writing and performing spoken word, and planning arts-related events. The original post is located here: https://www.vironika.org/dangers-self-improvement-new-years-resolutions/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.9	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2202, the dangers of self-improvement. Why most
1:06.0	new year's resolutions don't work by Veronica2Geleva of Veronica.org and I'm Justin Malik. We're
1:13.4	going to jump right into today's article about resolutions as we optimize your life.
1:22.5	The dangers of self-improvement. Why most new years resolutions don't work by Veronica2Geleva
1:29.0	of Veronica.org.
1:31.8	The holidays are almost upon us and that means people are about to start making resolutions
1:37.7	trying to carry them out, failing to stick to them and then hating themselves for it.
1:43.1	It seems like our whole culture is obsessed with either self-improvement, i.e. I'll make
1:47.3	myself happy by becoming the perfect person or self-destruction i.e. I drink, binge
1:53.8	or cry because I realize I'm not a perfect person. For most people, these two are deeply
2:00.0	related and the good news is they don't have to be. There's nothing wrong with self-improvement.
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