Happy New Year! This past year has been trying to say the least, and many of us are excited for a fresh start. In this episode, we want to share some tips to give you a leg up on achieving your New Year’s resolutions, look at the evidence to see how we can help bring them through to fruition. Jump to 4:48 for the tips but if you want to get nerdy with us, join us from the start where we talk about what it takes to form a new habit and take a look at what the data says about how successful these resolutions are.

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Lally P, Van Jaarsveld C, Potts H, Wardle J (2010) How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world.

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