Hi everyone, welcome back to the Be There In 5 podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.

I hope everyone had the happiest of holidays, wherever you were, whoever you were with, whatever you were doing,

whether it was with other people or simply indulging in some self-care.

I think that the end of the year is a great time to take a minute, to reflect, to reset,

to get ready for a new year. And, you know, I'm not one for resolutions for arbitrary goals.

I'll hold myself hostage to, I just, you know, as time's gone on, I've just realized I'm not

going to fundamentally change as a person. And I feel like I'm often setting myself up for failure.

And, you know, I think we're all pretty hard on ourselves. I think we all have high standards for

ourselves. And I think we all kind of fell subject to this, like, insanity as it relates to self-improvement.

And while I think discipline, accountability, evolving, active decision-making in terms of where you want to,

you know, how you want to move forward and make changes is important. But I also think that,

sometimes we forget we're doing the best we can. Sometimes we forget that in the moment, the things

we regret, we did them for a reason. And that you really always can only be doing the best you can

in real time and even though out of context in the future and hindsight, it might frustrate you.

Remember that at that moment, you were trying to take care of your needs. And I think that we're all

harsh enough on ourselves and where we are relative to others. And sometimes the new year should

be less about nose to the grindstone. And more about making your heart in mind, first and foremost,

the softest place to land. Because I think no matter what we'll do our best this year,

and great things will happen. And, you know, starting it out with this incredible pressure to

make immense changes would be great to start out the year kind of patting yourself on the back and

being like, I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of how far I've come. You know, well, fitness and health

nutritional regiments and career goals and all these things are important and great things to focus on

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