How to Make New Year’s Resolutions That Aren’t a Trap

Kelli María Korducki
Forge
Published in
1 min readDec 31, 2020

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2021 New Year’s Resolutions typed by a typewriter.
Photo: Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images

Around this time last year, the writer Siobhan Adcock made a bold assertion: New Year’s resolutions are a capitalist trap.

“Hasn’t it ever struck you as fishy that the most popular resolutions people make are ones that result in becoming a better, fitter, more productive worker bee?” she asked. And, well… yes. Yes, it has.

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Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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