There are thousands of articles and podcasts and videos about New Year's resolutions. You can find countless lists like "Top 4 (or 5, or 15, or 30) Reasons Resolutions Don't Work". You'll find even more lists of how to keep them! Well, in this episode, I give you ONE. ONE REASON why you aren't seeing your goals through and ONE sure fire way to make sure you do. This one goes out to all of my Daily Doers, and ANYONE looking to change their life in 2021.
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Intro: This is words that move me, the podcast where movers and shakers, like you get the information and inspiration. You need to navigate your creative career with clarity and confidence. I am your host master mover, Dana Wilson. And if you're someone that loves to learn, laugh and is looking to rewrite the starving artist story, then sit tight. But don't stop moving because you're in the right place.
Dana: Alright. Alright. Hello and welcome to Words that Move Me, I'm Dana. I'm jazzed you're here. I am so excited about this episode, although it's a bit of a tough love type of episode. Um, speaking of love, and speaking of tough, I want to start this episode by saying, I hope that you are finding solid footing wherever you stand. Even if there is uncertainty, when you look out the window, solid footing is what I am asking for today. It's what I'm wishing you today. And I did a little Pilates earlier, so I stand a pretty good chance at finding solid footing today. All right, let's dig in. Shall we? Today we are talking about resolutions, including, but not limited to new year's resolutions. And we're talking about why they don't work. And we're talking about how to make them work. Now, as far as why new year's resolutions don't work, you can absolutely undoubtedly 100% find 100,000 articles on the internet about new year's resolutions. There's a lot of research about habits and there, there are a lot of really great and some not so great articles about this specific topic. You'll find lists on lists like top five reasons, top 16 reasons, top 20 reasons why your news resolutions didn't work or 14 new ways to make sure your resolution works. Listen, I'm going to sum it up with one, one reason your new year's resolution didn't work, and one way to make sure that it works.
Now, if you are taking on a new year's resolution or a doing daily creative challenge, it's probably because of the way that you feel right now and the way you think you will feel once you have accomplished that thing. You think that something is not working for you now, the way you're doing things now, and you think that you will feel better when you act a certain different way, new year's resolutions and other long-term commitments are really all about what you think, the way you feel and the actions you take. Yet, for some reason, the only value in that equation, the think feel act equation. The only value that most people think to adjust is the actions I'm going to work out five days a week. I'm going to stop drinking every night. I'm going to start doing creative daily things. I’m going to start talking to my friends and family more often doing, doing, doing, or stop doing, stop, doing, stop doing. It's all about behav