How to Make New Year’s Resolutions That Aren’t a Trap
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.
If you didn’t find that particular goal-setting angle a bit suspicious at the beginning of 2020, I’m betting that you sure as hell do now.
The good news is that you can make resolutions that actually do make things better for yourself and the people around you—and not just your boss. Adcock offers a few: “Read more. Think more. Enjoy your life more. Take care of yourself and others.”
So, go forth and give yourself permission to enter 2021 without tripping headfirst into the trap of late-capitalist optimization. You deserve it.
