New Year’s Resolutions

How to Be Fine

Jolenta Greenberg

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this episode of How to Be Fine, Kristen and Jolenta discuss whether or not New Year’s resolutions are actually effective. Plus, they offer up advice on dealing with medical vulnerability, and how to find an IRL literary community. Do you have any advice question for us? Email us at [email protected], or follow us on Instagram @howtobefinepod. And if you haven't already, please join our How to Be Fine (formerly By the Book) Facebook community! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kristenandjolenta Sources: https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/new-years-resolutions-are-lame-the-peacock-vow-is-awesome.html https://www.teenvogue.com/story/new-years-resolutions-history https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/01/05/the-origin-of-new-years-resolutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_resolution https://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/when-did-new-years-resolutions-start https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-statistics/ https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/44868-americans-new-years-resolutions-2023-poll?redirect_from=%2Ftopics%2Fsociety%2Farticles-reports%2F2022%2F12%2F28%2Famericans-new-years-resolutions-2023-poll https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Dai_Fresh_Start_2014_Mgmt_Sci.pdf https://fisher.osu.edu/blogs/leadreadtoday/why-most-new-years-resolutions-fail https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jclp.1151 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/6/3084 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234097#pone-0234097-g002 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2980864/

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0:00.0	How to be?
0:06.0	Hey Kristen.
0:07.0	Yeah, Galenta.
0:08.0	I cannot believe it's almost 2024.
0:11.0	This year flew by so fast. I like barely even noticed it.
0:15.0	Oh gosh. Yeah. Right? Totally agree.
0:18.0	And I was thinking about New Year's resolutions and I realized I actually hate the phrase new year new you.
0:24.0	Yeah it is totally unrealistic like I'm supposed to be a whole new me and do I really want to be?
0:31.0	Yeah a whole new you is a big deal and like what just because the calendar ended I'm supposed to be able to magically be a whole new me or have so many New Year's resolutions that I am transformed.
0:43.0	Like that is too much pressure.
0:44.8	Totally.
0:45.5	It is not a small change.
0:46.7	It's not like changing your socks.
0:48.2	And I don't even think it's possible to change that much that quickly,
0:51.9	to be honest with you.
0:53.0	Right, like who came up with New Year's resolutions anyway?
0:56.4	We should look into this.
0:58.0	Like, does the New Year really make it possible to become a new you?
1:02.0	Yes, let's get to the bottom of this because I'm Kristen Meinzer.
1:06.0	And I'm Galanta Greenberg.
1:08.0	And this is how to be fine. The Oh, In each episode of how to be fine we weigh in on what's happening in the world of
1:41.9	happiness health and betterment and we what's happening in the world of happiness, health,
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