096 – A New Look at Resolutions Occupied

WELCOME TO 2021!!!







And to kick off another year of podcasting I thought I'd take a look at that age old tradition of making New Years Resolutions.....or rather why you shouldn't bother.







I wanted to look at why soooo many people fail their resolutions and an alternative method that I use and you might find more successful!







Mentioned is a previous episode that you can find right here: What SMART Goals are DUMB







Keep Occupied







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Episode Transcript







00:00:00 - 00:05:11







Hi and welcome to 20 21. You made it congratulations that alone after last year is a massive success month. So Props to you, but are you one of the 74% of people that is thinking of setting some New Year's resolutions? Well, let's have a chat and make sure that you're not part of the eighty percent of people who don't usually succeed with said resolutions.







New Year's resolutions we've all heard of them most of us have probably sat them at one point or another very few of us have actually succeeded in completing any of the resolutions that we set but why is that and what can we do or what can we drive it's a little bit different to make sure that we are actually progressing along this journey of self improvement that we are self-imposing on ourselves every 1st of January So it's important to sort of know that despite 74% roughly in the US of people wanting to set nice resolutions this still 80ish percent of those people that are going to fail them and that's a massive fail rate, which makes you wonder like why I'm not doing it. What is the purpose we All have these things in us or about us or around us that we want to change that we want to improve sometimes. It's health-related. Sometimes it's career-related. Sometimes it's money related. But every single person has something that they would love to improve upon in that lives. Now for some reason it's a it seems to be a cultural thing. We've been brought up with this belief that the start of the new year is this magical time, when all of a sudden boom, we can start fresh start clean everything that we've sort of patterned and built up to that point no longer affects us and we can only choose what we're going to change or what we're going to do better at in the new year. It all sounds wonderful on paper and I wish I could tell you that that's exactly how it worked. But unfortunately, we can't instantly regained right all of our patterns in our history at the the tick of The Twelve o'clock. Unfortunately, it would be much easier if we could change now for most people the majority of their New Year's resolutions tend to be health-related seconded by self-improvement type goals off. It's interesting that. The younger generation so jensy is much higher percentage of them actually wanting to or anticipating setting New Year's resolutions. And as you go through the generations towards the older Generations the Baby Boomers and so on that gradually gets less and less and I'm only predict or I can only sort of guess that that's because they failed a number of times during their younger years wage at actually completing some of these resolutions and that Honda wears on you. I would imagine so down baby boomers where it's sort of only about 60% of people are going to set New Year's resolutions for 20 21 Jen's. He's offered that 92% So there's a massive difference dead. They just young and fresh and hasn't been haven't had the life beaten out of them yet. So that's quite interesting. one of the one of the reasons that it's I guess hypothesized ...