10% of people who make new year’s resolutions successfully implement lasting change. The other 90% fail. Why do we try to make resolutions if we know that they don’t work? Listen in to learn the three key factors for making lasting change in our lives. 

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Here's a fact for you.

About 10% of the people who make new year's resolutions successfully

implement lasting change.

The other 90% fail.

So why do we keep doing this to ourselves year after year?

Why do we tell ourselves that we need a resolution?

Just because of the calendar moved up one more number.

Welcome to episode 72 of this shit works.

I'm your host, Julie Brown.

And today I'm discussing why we need to abandon the practice of

making new year's resolutions.

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marketing PR and communications agency with team members in Boston.

Los Angeles, Miami and New York city visit them.

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I'm sorry to break it to you.

But the 1st of January doesn't hold any mystical or magical power that will

help you facilitate change in your life.

It's just another day on the calendar.

If there was something that you really wanted to change or do differently.

And it was June.

Would you wait until January 1st to do it?

No.

You do it in June.

But somehow the beginning of a new trip around the sun always makes us feel like

we have to come up with some big change.

And that's the first problem of resolutions.

They are usually way too big and not subdivided into

manageable and achievable goals.

This is why they fail because they are too big and undefined.

I'm not the only one who says that.

Psychotherapists Jonathan Alpert, author of be fearless.

Change your life in 28 days broke down three of the biggest reasons

people fail to complete their new year's resolutions each year.

The first.

Your resolution isn't specific enough.

For example.

I want to run a marathon.

Okay.

Great.

Then.

What marathon.

What is the date?

Now make and commit to a training schedule and moving back from that date.

Bulls that are detailed and specific are harder to ignore

than broad sweeping goals.

Too.

You weren't framing your resolutions positively.

so much of how we talk to ourselves impacts our actions and our behaviors.

Albert says, so try to frame the resolution in a positive way

and not use negative language when describing your new goal.

Three.

Your resolution isn't actually for you.

Your goal needs to be made by and for you.

Not influenced by your friends or your family.

And what they see or you see in society and on social media.

What if we didn't make a resolution.

But instead at the end of every year, took a moment to look back

and acknowledge all the things that we accomplished the previous year.

How much work we put into it.

The really hard times to be got through the great things that, happened, and the

happiness that we shared with others.

That's what I'm going to do this year.

Now don't get me wrong.

I have goals for 20, 22, but none of them involve changing who I am or

beating myself up for who I'm not.

Well, this episode is short and sweet because we're already

at the cocktail of the week.

And it's the cure boreal.

It's just creamed.

Cassie's black, current liquor., and that goes with champagne, like

tomatoes and basil and peaches and cream, peanut butter and jelly.

Peas and carrots.

So, all you're going to do is take a champagne flute.

Put a little bit of Kira Royal on the bottom and then fill

it with your favorite bubbles.

And then you've got this sophisticated champagne cocktail.

Perfect for celebrations of all kinds, especially like the kind where you say.

I'm good.

Just the way I am.

All right friends.

Happy new year.

I'll see you in 2022.