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Want to make 2025 different? Here’s the brutal truth.

This changed my life (and will help you too)

Manj Bahra
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3 min readJan 18, 2025

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Do you want this year to be different?

To be the year you FINALLY do that thing you’ve been talking about for ages.

Then give me 2 minutes of your attention because this article could change your life.

And don’t worry, I’m not about to pitch you a product.

But I do want to share something that changed everything for me.

See, in 2017, I woke up on New Year’s Day wanting change.

I hated my reflection in the mirror, was miserable in my banking job, and felt lost in my relationship.

So, I did what everyone does. I wrote a list of goals.

Not any old goals. BIG ones that excited me.

I told everyone about them and even stuck them on my wall.

Do you know what happened next?

Nothing.

In fact — things got worse.

I messed around, drank too much and sabotaged my personal and professional life.

Why?

Because I fell into the same mistakes everyone makes when creating change:

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