New Year's resolutions experts say to skip — or how to tweak them for success
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2024 is almost here, which means people are starting to focus on their New Year's resolutions — despite research suggesting these annual vows of self-improvement only work a fraction of the time.
Failed or overly strict resolutions can have a negative impact on our mental health, says Michelle Turk, a licensed marriage and family therapist with virtual primary and mental health care platform PlushCare.
"It can lead to feelings of inadequacy, which can harm self-esteem and lead to self-criticism. Overly strict goals can also lead to an increase in stress and/or anxiety," she says. "Repeated failures at overly strict goals can lead to a person believing that personal growth or change is unachievable, which can be disheartening."
As NASA scientist Chad Greene flew over northern Greenland with a team of engineers in April, they never expected their radar to find something manmade buried deep within the ice. Greene and his team were flying above the Greenland Ice Sheet on a NASA Gulfstream III plane, scanning the barren expanse of ice that's more than a mile deep in some areas, when their radar instrument picked up something unusual.