07-01-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com

How to keep your resolutions (clue: it's not all about willpower)

It’s not the only way to change your habits: you could start by making the goal easier in the first place• From quitting sugar to writing that novel – how to achieve your goalIt’s hard to think of a situation in which it wouldn’t be extremely useful to have more willpower. For a start, your New Year’s resolutions would no longer be laughably short-lived. You could stop yourself spending all day on social media, spiralling into despair at the state of the world,
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