Practice #16 - Forget About New Years Resolutions

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,220 Everyone's heard the statistic that most people fail their New Year's resolutions. 2 00:00:06,220 --> 00:00:08,280 So then why don't you just ditch them? 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:15,880 Last year, last New Year's, I actually came up with my favorite version of like replacement 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:17,400 of a New Year's resolution. 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:23,420 I've never really done New Year's resolutions, but I have had goals and I've always found 6 00:00:23,420 --> 00:00:30,600 it interesting and I've always found it like desirable to participate in a New Year's resolution, 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,720 but I never really did because I knew that most people failed doing them. 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:41,640 And so I, the reason why I found it like cool to do it was because then you'll be able 9 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:47,200 to look back on your last year's New Year's resolution and see how much you grew. 10 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,800 And so then I came up with a solution and where I literally just took out my notebook. 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:01:01,080 I went to the back page of my notebook and I wrote down my stats, 2022. 12 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:07,200 And actually it was 2023 when it was like the beginning of 2023 that I wrote that. 13 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,800 And so in a couple of weeks, I'm going to be writing down 20. 14 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,160 Actually well, no, when you guys hear this video in a couple of days, I'm going to be 15 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,600 writing down 2024, my stats. 16 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,480 And so I basically write down on the back page of my journal and I write down my stats 17 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:33,840 2024 and I write down a bunch of like on the left hand side, bunch of options. 18 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,360 So I wish I brought my journal down with me, but pretty much I wrote down all my stats. 19 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:46,400 So my current goal, which at the time was like getting strong and building nice physique. 20 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,520 So I wrote down like how much I weighed, how much I could bench, how much I could pull 21 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,840 up, like how many pull ups I could do. 22 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,280 Sorry if you heard that noise. 23 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:56,560 I was really loud. 24 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:05,320 But how many pull ups I could do, how many, how much I can bench, how like you get the 25 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,120 point. 26 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:12,080 All of the different exercises that I could do, I wrote those down. 27 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,160 And then I wrote down like what was my current diet? 28 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:23,080 How like, I don't even know what I wrote down, but for this upcoming year, I'm going to like 29 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,840 ask chat GBT, the like every single stat possible. 30 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:32,880 And I'm just going to brainstorm as many stats possible to write down and I'm going 31 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,480 to write it down. 32 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,680 And I also wrote down like my income. 33 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,080 And that was because I kind of suspected that I might want to be focusing on income in 34 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,800 the future. 35 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,240 And it was true, but my income is probably not going to change so far. 36 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:55,640 12 and a half months into the year, my income, well actually 11 and a half. 37 00:02:55,640 --> 00:03:02,360 Well it's December 22nd, but my income has not changed, but it doesn't matter because 38 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,160 every single thing has grown. 39 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:12,360 And the thing is that my like potential income is growing a lot more. 40 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:13,760 I don't even know what that means, whatever. 41 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,680 I'm just coping. 42 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,800 But I just wanted to get on here and say that you should write down your stats during the 43 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,300 new year. 44 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:31,440 Like just take down a journal and write down my stats 2024 and then write down as many 45 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:36,280 columns and things as you can think about. 46 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:41,720 And then put your journal in the closet somewhere that you're not going to see it for the entire 47 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,040 year. 48 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:49,600 And I actually had, I used an old journal for this like back when in freshman year, like 49 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:56,240 four years ago when I was trying to learn how to code, I had a journal and I wrote down 50 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,160 like all my notes in the journal. 51 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:06,880 And so I still had that journal, but I just used it to write my daily or my yearly stats 52 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:07,880 on it. 53 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:08,880 And I haven't checked it. 54 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,000 I don't believe I've checked it for a year. 55 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,840 So I'm going to be checking that over the next couple of days or weeks and then writing 56 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:21,120 down the next column on it. 57 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,000 So just pretty much just put it there. 58 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,720 And then the reason why people, the reason why people fail their new year's resolutions 59 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,400 is because they tell people about it before they even started taking action. 60 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:40,280 I've had so many experiences in my own life and I've seen other people do this as well. 61 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:44,200 They tell people about their goal before they even start taking action. 62 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:50,280 And that's, it's pretty much your doom to fail now after you say that. 63 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,640 So don't tell people about the stat thing that you're doing. 64 00:04:54,640 --> 00:05:01,520 Just it's, it's okay to say like, oh yeah, you should, it's okay to like suggest it to 65 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:06,560 someone else, but don't like flat out say that you've done it or that you're writing 66 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:07,560 it down. 67 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,920 And if it comes up, just say, oh yeah, I wrote down my stats and then leave it at that. 68 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:32,080 You don't have to say your actual numbers, but that's pretty much it for today's episode.