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One Subtle Shift That You Can Do When Setting a Goal For Change

Another déjà vu with your new year’s goal setting? Read this.

Oraorn Srichiangwang
5 min readDec 30, 2021

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A new-year’s resolution list
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The New Year is approaching. Many people have already started to reflect and take stock of the experiences and learnings of the year. The End of the Year and New Year are natural milestones — symbolic moments to let go and begin anew. Many already have set goals for the new year — their New year’s resolutions. It is a vow of achievement for the coming year. Unfortunately, many will find themselves giving up their plan before January ends. Sound familiar? We even have a day for it, and it is called “Quitters Day.

Those new year resolutions are usually well-intended and can be life-altering such as quitting smoking, losing weight, getting a new job, and exercising more. The list goes on.

While there are many reasons why people jump on the quitters’ bandwagon, I am here to tell you that sometimes significant progress can be rooted in a subtle change that you can do today.

And I have my dad as proof.

My dad was a smoker up until I was around 9-year old. I could not quite remember how it happened, but it felt like one day, he had just stopped smoking. I did not…

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Oraorn Srichiangwang

Personal Empowerment and Accountability coach | Change Catalyst | The Gentle Achiever