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One of the reasons so many of us give up on our New Years goals by February or March is that we set them too high. I know, I know—your friend or family member was able to set the same goal and keep it up. But her regular lifestyle, in the previous year, may have already put her much closer to that goal than you are. In other words, reaching it may have been easier for her because she was a few steps ahead of you. Don’t set your goals based on what someone else is doing, or what you wish some superhuman version of yourself could do. When you set them that way, you wind up feeling so overwhelmed by the giant mountain you’ve put in front of yourself to climb, that you collapse at the foot of it. Remember that you don’t have to reach the pinnacle of every goal this year. You can take baby steps. Here are some examples of realistic versus unrealistic New Year’s resolutions.

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Unrealistic: I’ll hit the gym seven days a week

You want to be a true gym rat. You want to buy more workout clothes and sign up for the fancy (expensive) gym because you plan on spending a lot of time sweating. You set your alarms for 5:30 am every day of the week and tell your friends you can’t make your Sunday morning boozy brunches anymore—you’ll be at the gym.

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