New Year, New You? Screw Reinvention.

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New Year, New You!

Barf.

I was talking to a friend who was going through a tough time, and she kept saying she needed to make huge changes. Essentially changing everything about herself. Hole up on an island for months to sweat it out at some ashram while eating far too much kale and reading way too many self-help books.

She had bought into the hype, touted by all the lifestyle bloggers and entrepreneur coaches online, that the only way to find happiness and success in what she wanted was to stop being herself and learn to be more like them.

With the end of one year transitioning into another, that is always the prime time for these folks to come out of the woodwork. To prey on your insecurities and doubts, making you believe that if you just do what they tell you (usually for a “nominal fee”), your life will be amazeballs and you will be the best “you” that you could ever possibly be.

Barf. Again. With dry heaving.

’Cause here’s the thing … Though it might sound a little too Pollyanna-head-in-the-clouds, I happen to believe that at our core, we are all pretty fantastic people.

So you, yes you, waking up today, pouring a cup of pouring a cup of coffee (or a dram of whisky) and settling in to catch up on news and emails from the…