Sarah Harte: It’s a new dawn and I’ll do my best to make sure I’m feeling good

Nina Simone's cover of 'Feeling Good'  seems apposite for this time of year.

Thank God Christmas is over, a time of falsely high expectations, families crammed together striving for perfection only achievable on Hallmark cards.

January is a time of possibility, of renewed purpose, it’s a clean slate with the chance to have a lash at life again. It’s not a time to feel penitent because self-reproach is overrated. January is the time to write a new story, it is never too late to dream a dream. So, what if ‘the new you’ project is ultimately doomed, it’s the striving that counts.