Woman Ditches New Year’s Resolutions for Milking Cows and Sheep Herds
KEY POINTS
- •Sinead Mulhern started each year by traveling, beginning with a six-week stay on a friend’s Costa Rican farmhouse in January 2024.
- •She settled into rural life, tried and failed to milk cows, enjoyed local chicharrón, and eventually returned to her home in Cuenca, Ecuador.
- •Through trekking rugged Andean towns with her brother in early 2026, she found clearer goals than any New Year’s resolution could provide.
Sinead Mulhern gave up the typical New Year’s resolution routine in January 2024 by swapping Canadian winter for six weeks at a Costa Rican farmhouse, where her lasso skills were decent but her cow-milking technique was a catastrophic 0/10. Instead of vague promises, she started every year with a trip, including a 2025 Ecuadorian coastal cabin rental for just $250/month where writing and sheep-chasing replaced gym regrets. In 2026, she kicked off February by trekking around turquoise volcano lakes with her brother, proving hiking steep Andean cliffs fuels soul-searching better than awkward Pilates classes in Cuenca. No resolutions harmed in the making.
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Why stress over resolutions when you can flail milking cows, chase sheep, and get stunned by volcano lakes? Milestones meet mud for 2026 clarity.
Choosing cow-milking fails over gym gains to kickstart 2024 is the new wellness trend nobody asked for but we need.
Only someone who lassoed horses, ran steep roads, and nearly gave up to chicharrón could understand ditching resolutions for volcanic goal-clarity.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 1/30/2026 | Author: Sinead Mulhern
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