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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Anita Bhagwandas

An active January: 14 motivation-boosting buys to help you stick to your resolutions

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January always arrives with that peculiar cocktail of hope and lethargy: the eagerness to “be better” mixed with the deep, gravitational pull of the sofa. After weeks of festivities, the desire to reset our bodies is real, but translating that into action is much harder.

Motivation ultimately lives in the doing, not the daydreaming, but when life gets busy, exercise ends up lower on our groaning to-do lists; most of us will sack off our new year resolutions by the time February comes around.

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