Are your resolutions setting you up for failure? We talk with Jan Stanley on how to make better resolutions for the new year on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor we have of long-term

happiness. You have some factors in your control. They can promote the health and resilience

and growth of your absolutely most important

asset, which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.

Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place.

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It's really worth picking up. So please do so. Well, the new year is almost upon us, and a lot of us are going to be making resolutions to, well, a lot of us are going to be making resolutions to get into better shape, but some of us are going to want to read more, or we're going to want to travel more, or we're going to work on our tempers, or something like that. But sometimes we set goals that are entirely too lofty and set ourselves up for failure.

Jan Stanley is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Master of Applied Positive Psychology

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