New Year, new you? Gets a little bit tiring, doesn't it? While we'd argue that goal setting is a useful thing to do any time of year, we'd be lying if we said we always stick to our New Year's resolutions. Well, according to expert astrologer Kirsty Gallagher, the difficulty in maintaining our resolutions can be attributed to when we're making them. Essentially, in the dark depths of January, it's the worst time to be setting shiny new goals—and you'd actually find success comes a lot more easily if you wait until Spring.
"I've been saying for years that it's the worst time to set resolutions because it's cold, it's dark, it's grey; everything around you in nature is still in total hibernation," Gallagher tells me as I sip on a Lemsip trying to fight off the end-of-year cold that's been doing the rounds. "As I'm sure you'll understand," she continued. "At the end of the year, we're already exhausted, then we push through by going out to parties and celebrating. Then January comes and we're expected to find all this enthusiasm for the new year. This means when we set these big resolutions, we tend to pick them out of thin air as we're not prepared."
