How to make 2021 the year you find your best reasons to thrive By Mark van Dijk There you were in January 2020, ready to face the new decade, armed with hope, optimism and a list of new year resolutions. By March that list was long forgotten, as the pandemic wiped out all those well-laid plans. After the upheavals of 2020, is there any point to setting resolutions for 2021? Well, yes. People who set goals tend to be more comfortable with risk and more energised by change, explains Bryan Tracy in his bestselling book, Goals! Unfortunately, many goals are never met because failure breeds the belief that you cannot change, and by extension, that you shouldn’t bother trying. But you should. Just do it differently.