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Can new year's resolutions be more dangerous than helpful?

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Everyone loves New Years. People love the excuse to party, drink booze, and dress up because we don't really have the opportunity to do so in our everyday lives most of the time.

But the most popular trend on New Years is making a resolution. This seems to be the big idea everyone has in their minds at the time of the holiday: What can I do better next year?

Now here's the thing about resolutions, they can be harmless things like going to the gym or eating healthier, but sometimes they can be sort of harmful to us.

When we're pushed to make these resolutions or decisions, it's usually focused more on ourselves. What can we do to improve ourselves?

But I don't think resolutions should really be about that. I think resolutions should be about improving the world around us.

What if our resolutions were less "I need to work on being more confident" and more "Being meek isn't a character flaw. I want to work on embracing my quiet nature."

Yeah, it's okay to want to be confident about things and not be pushed around, that's never okay. But focus your attention more on learning to love the parts of you the world might say are out of trend. Remember this year that, as said in NYT bestselling book Dumplin', "Anybody is a swimsuit body."

BE okay with who you are and embrace it. If you want to change because something is toxic, that's great. But don't feel like you have to change who you are because the world isn't glorifying it at the moment.

Be your own person aspire to be unique. The world is lacking people who are unapologetically themselves because we get repressed by the comments of others.

What I've found, being more myself and less everyone else, is that there are people like you. Your people are out there and there are people that are going to love you so hard.

Don't change who you are and miss that opportunity to feel completely and 100% okay with being yourself.

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