Cosmopolitan South Africa — January 2018

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ooroldJanuarygetsaroughdeal.
It reminds me of the overachiever
withthesmack-meface.Youknow
theone:fartooenthusiastic,far
too ambitious, far too smug about
it.Besidesthefactthatwe’reallmiserably
broke, with those three dreaded words

• back to work–loomingoverourheads
  likeabiguglycloud,thethingIhate
  most about January is the pressure
  we pile on ourselves. So this year, I’m
  saying ditch the unrealistic goals and
  doyou,notnew.Insteadofmakinga
  checklistofthingsyouvowtobebetter
  at, start 2018 with some anti-resolutions.
  Here are mine:
  1S yyestoeverything.Stop over-
  committing,andsaynotopeople


• minus the guilt.
  2Workharder.Leave the laptop at the
  office and watch series on weekends.

Editor

Holly Meadows

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3Stopeating

sugar. I gave up

drinking last year,

so give me all the

chocolate. In fact, I’ll have

all the ice cream too, thanks.

4Meetthemanofmydreams.

Concentrate on me, practise self-

care and give zero f**ks about the

elusive Jason Momoa lookalike.

(We’ll meet one day.)

5Runamarathon. I will not beat

myself up about the fact that I haven’t

exercised since 2016. I might go for

awalkortwo–slowlydoesit.

6UpmyInstagramgame. I’m never

going to have a feed that looks like

adayinthelifeofOliviaPalermo,

soletmestoptryingnow.

7Takecontrol. I commit to stop

stressing about stuff I have no control

over. Goodbye micro-management!

8Stopprocrastinating. I’m a master

at putting things off. It’s the way I am,

and I’m okay with that. It will all get

done in the end.

There’s something incredibly

liberating about beginning the

year with no agenda – without

that suffocating and, quite frankly,

borderline rude set of goals we put

on ourselves. (Although if you turn

to page 19, you’ll fi nd that some of

my colleagues disagree with me.)

Now I challenge you to set some

of your own anti-resolutions.

You could even write them

down in the diary we’ve

given you free with this

issue – but don’t forget

to tweet me your one-

liners @HollyMeadowsSA,

and I’ll RT my faves.

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