This year, don’t make a resolution — run a tiny experiment instead

Why curiosity beats willpower (and always has).

Happy New Year 🎉!

If your inbox looks like a battalion of well-meaning promises, let me offer a calmer alternative: treat January like a mini lab, not a battlefield.

Resolutions are speeches; experiments are invitations. Pick one small thing to test for 14–30 days. Call it Trial A. Make it almost laughably simple so you won’t rebel against it — a five-minute walk after lunch, one phone-free hour before bed, green tea instead of late-night scrolling.

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Measure nothing if you don’t want to. Just notice one signal that matters: sleep, mood, energy, fewer “why am I like this?” moments.

At the end, decide: keep it, tweak it, or drop it like a failed hypothesis — and congratulate yourself anyway. You didn’t fail; you gathered data.

That’s the quiet magic of experiments. They remove shame. If something doesn’t work, it doesn’t mean you are broken — it means the idea was wrong for you. Negative results are still results. (“Yoga at 6 a.m. turns out to be a bad personality fit” is valuable information).

A few rules for good experiments:

• Start small. Tiny changes actually happen.

• Keep it playful. Curiosity beats willpower every time.

• Ask one question only. Don’t try to fix your whole life in January.

• Share insights. Community accelerates learning (and keeps it human).

If you want something mildly rebellious: let this be the year you choose repair over overhaul. Less forcing, more restoring. Practices that calm the nervous system, support the body, and respect biological limits outperform heroic self-improvement plans — every time.

That philosophy is also why I wrote my book, Essential Handbook for Restoring Balance After Vaccination and Everyday Life Challenges. It’s not about extreme protocols or fear-driven fixes, but about practical, grounded ways to help the body and mind regain balance — using simple, time-tested tools you can actually sustain. If your New Year experiment is “less stress, more resilience,” it fits quietly into that journey.

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So skip the grand declarations. Choose one curious, low-stakes test. Run it. Observe. Adjust. That’s not laziness — that’s intelligence.

Cheers 🥂 for the year of calm experiments and honest data,
Dr. Lidiya Angelova
Biologist, truth-seeker, warrior, natural health advocate.
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P.S. A good first experiment: one minute of slow breathing before your next email. That’s your control condition.