New Year, New Goals?? We say scratch that - let us tell you why.  We enter January after several weeks of celebrating the holidays when we overdo just about everything. Eating, spending, drinking, planning - if we’ve done it, chances are we’ve overdone it.   Our response to all that excess trades one extreme for the other and we feel the need to course-correct on a dime, which leads many of us to the infamous New Year’s Resolutions. These are more about short-lived dopamine hits and distractions, than anything meaningful or long term, and the “wish” disguised as a goal, inevitably fails. (That doesn’t sound fun, encouraging, or life-giving.) When our goals feel like punishments, we won’t embrace them. If they feel too big, we won’t know where to start. And, if our goals aren’t what we have actually chosen for ourselves, we won’t be committed. What gives, right?