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!!

Ok, listen up with all that "I'm not getting enough done. I'm not writing that novel. I haven't worked out at home 8 days a week. I'm FAILING QUARANTINE" NONSENSE.

The state of your brain determines what you are capable of accomplishing on a basic, biological level. And right now there are several things happening on a BIOLOGICAL LEVEL that are fucking your brain up.

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!