Up First briefing: Life Kit has 50 ways to change your life in 2024

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Your New 12 months’s decision planner

Are you a New 12 months’s decision particular person? I did not was once. My philosophy has all the time been, “Why look ahead to a brand new 12 months should you might change your life at any time?” Over time, I’ve grown fonder of the clear slate feeling that Jan. 1 provides you. And this 12 months, Life Equipment’s New 12 months’s Decision planner has all the pieces I have to set some large targets.

The illustrated grid options 50 episodes that may assist you attain your 2024 ambitions. You possibly can filter them by theme and work in your psychological well being, profession, relationships and extra. On the lookout for extra common recommendation? Try a conduct scientist’s ideas for altering your life. No matter decision you select, do not forget to make use of these tricks to preserve your self accountable all year long.

Life Equipment editor Malaka Gharib says this 12 months she hopes readers can discover an episode that may assist them “enhance their life in an enormous approach in 2024.” She had a child in February and needs to observe saying “no” extra. She’ll be utilizing recommendation from the “The best way to Say No” episode and pausing earlier than answering a request.

As for me? I am getting married this month. As I begin a brand new section of my life with my husband, I will be trying to this episode for recommendation on beginning new household traditions — and letting go of outdated ones.

Looking forward to 2024

For many who are extraordinarily on-line, 2023 was the 12 months of ChatGPT, Barbenheimer and woman dinners. What is going to the web deliver us this 12 months? Casey Newton, editor for the tech e-newsletter Platformer, tells Morning Version what his predictions are.

Many assume it is dangerous luck to take your Christmas tree down earlier than the twelfth day of Christmas on Jan. 6. In case your tree continues to be up, this is how one can correctly get rid of it or give it a brand new life.

A go-to bronchial asthma medicine is leaving cabinets this month. Drugmaker GSK says it is discontinuing its drug Flovent as a result of it is making a generic model as a substitute. This is what sufferers who depend on the medicine have to know.

The Emmy Awards are lastly right here. Initially scheduled for September 2023, it was canceled as a result of writers’ and actors’ strikes. Mark your calendars for Jan. 15 to see whether or not your favourite exhibits will take dwelling a prize.

This article was edited by Treye Inexperienced.