Richard Hogan: Here are my four top tips for better living for 2024

Dare to disturb your universe - you have to push yourself to see what you're capable of.

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

We're four days into the year. The trail of sulphur still hanging off us, for all the new habits we want to bring into our lives over this new year. But as the days march on, that sulphur, all that early energy can start to wane as we slip back into old habits.

By mid-January we can feel more hopeless than ever as we have lost all that early impetuous, and we start to think that we are doomed repeating patterns of behaviour we know are not that good or healthy for us. Good or bad habits take time to form, and they take time to break.