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How to Make Better New Year's Resolutions for 2023
It’s time: Time for all the end-of-year reflection stories, your Spotify wrap-up and an influx of newsletters and articles telling you what resolutions you need to make for next year.
Sure, you can make the argument that the best time to start something is always now — not to keep your bad habits till Dec. 31 and try to radically change starting at midnight on New Year’s. But research does show that the start of a new year is a great time to set new goals, says Dr. Laurie Santos, the Yale professor whose the Science of Wellbeing course was such a hit that it led to a free Coursera course and the podcast The Happiness Lab.