At this point in the year so many of us are bombarded with pressure to ‘welcome new opportunities’, set new goals for our careers, health, and love life.

Axar.az reports citing FF that the concept of a ‘New Year – New You’ sounds great, but for many of us, heaping this pressure on can leave so many of us feeling lacking… So here are some tips to take the pressure off.

Make your first priority being kinder to yourself – So many of us get caught in a trap of thinking that the best way to motivate ourselves is by chastising and berating ourselves.

Give Yourself Time – We live in a very reactive society where instant gratification is becoming the norm.

Write A Gratification List – The New Year is so often a time for self-reflection where we ‘take stock’ of where we are living.

Set realistic Goals - Being hard on ourselves often means that we also set ourselves huge life goals that we inevitably struggle to meet.

Be flexible - Sometimes we become so fixed upon a goal that we are not willing to entertain, or even notice opportunities that might be more suited to us.

Embrace the star you are – So many of us get caught up into setting goals in relation to what other people are doing, how they look and how they are living their lives.

Stop trying to be the best – There is such a lot of pressure on each of us to ‘be the best we can be’, in my experience that doesn’t give us much space to fail and make mistakes.