New Years Resolutions are trash. I'm just going to say it. They are the steaming dumpster fire of personal growth. Instead, here's a list of 7 approaches to life you can commit to that will definitely improve your New Year - including the neuroscience behind why each one is important and why it works. Basically - here's your one stop coaching superstore, complete with hilarious gifs!! READ ON, good humans, and get ready to glory in 2017!!

This is the best language I’ve ever found to distinguish between what I talk about as “feel good/turning off” activities and “feel good about yourself/battery-charging” activities: self-soothing vs. self-care - including that both activity types can only truly exist in the context of community and structural care. Check it out!

So I belong to a secret girl group in New York City, and last week one of our members asked for advice on a hot topic for creatives: "How do you get inspired/motivated to do creative or health-related things when you work a day job?" She's totally right; trying to stay focused and creative when you're working a day job – especially if it's unrelated to your passion or you, *ahem*, f*cking hate it – can feel epic on a walking-this-ring-to-Mordor level. 

How many times have you made a goal to improve yourself and failed to follow through?  Honestly, it’s probably thousands of times.  For all of us!  I’m counting all the Big Goals (I’m going to work out 6 days a week for an hour) and the little goals (I’m just going to watch one episode on Netflix before bed).  So why is there such a discrepancy between the awesome life plans we’ve designed and actually taking the actions that will get us there?

Worrying doesn't work, and recent neuroscience research opens the door to understanding why. Let me explain. As it turns out, our brains can't distinguish between what's imagined and what's real - at least not from an emotional perspective.  So if you spend a lot of time imagining and reimagining the worst case scenario, you're constantly putting your brain in a threat state. Read on to find out why this is a problem!