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A fresh start feels powerful – until motivation fades. Here’s how to set work goals that stick

  • Written by: Gayani Gunasekera, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Sessional Academic, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
A fresh start feels powerful – until motivation fades. Here’s how to set work goals that stickMay Lim/Getty

Every January, offices quietly reset. New planners appear on desks. Fresh notebooks open in meetings. To-do lists look neater, ambitions clearer. There is a shared sense that this year, things will be different.

And yet, by February, many of those planners sit half-used. The motivation that felt so real just weeks earlier fades. This...

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