This New Year’s I’m doing something different. I refuse to participate in the tradition of starting a new year by heaping more pressure on myself.

I will not make the same worn-out resolutions just to break them (again).

It seems January is the season to give the self-critical voice in our heads a megaphone. This time, we need to custom-tailor something for overachieving physicians.

Most of us have been bombarded throughout our careers with incessant messages to be better, to the point that this message becomes part of our inner dialogue.