Courses to make 2019 your best year yet

Make 2019 your best year yet with Guardian Masterclasses. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

Whether you’re prone to making New Year resolutions or not, every January feels like a new beginning, ripe with possibility and opportunity. But how do you make the most of this momentum? Here is a selection of courses to help make 2019 your best year yet.

Dr Rangan Chatterjee, resident doctor of BBC One’s Breakfast, shows you how you can get healthy and live your best life.

Transform your body and your mind

• Get healthy and live your best life with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

• Life doesn’t stop at 50: How to enjoy a fulfilling third act

• The Diet Myth: Learn how to make better nutritional choices with Professor Tim Spector

• How to make better decisions with LSE fellow in decision science Dr Valentina Ferretti

Learn how to make better decisions in 2019 with Dr Valentina Ferretti.

Try something new

• How to use your digital camera: A course with Guardian photographer David Levene

• Lyric-writing: A one-day workshop with Chris Difford

• Get gardening in 2019: A masterclass with Alys Fowler, Charles Dowding & Hollie Newton

Start writing

• Free your creativity and get started on your book

• The beginner’s guide to writing a novel

• How to structure your novel: A weekend workshop

• Writing your novel: A six-week creative writing programme with award-winning author Ross Raisin

Samantha Clarke will take you through how to work out what you love and what you should leave.

Be happier at work

• How to get hired: A masterclass with career coach Corinne Mills

• Love it or leave it – your guide to finding true work happiness

• How to have difficult conversations

Nurture your creativity

• Introduction to illustration: A one-day workshop

• The art of the crossword: How to solve clues and create your own puzzles

• How to write your family history with Nick Barlay

Nick Barlay’s masterclass will show you how to plan a compelling story based on your family history.

Transform your business

• Prepare your 2019 digital marketing strategy with confidence

• How to create a WordPress website in a day

• Becoming an expert and developing a personal brand: An evening class with Charly Lester

Indulge your curiosity

• A history of life on Earth: A masterclass on evolution with experts from the Natural History Museum

• An evening at the National Gallery with Jonathan Jones

• A morning at the Victoria and Albert Museum with Jonathan Jones