001: Why Resolutions Don't Work
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we focus on goal setting. This is part one of a three-part series where I will break down how to set your goals and make them achievable. We'll discuss why New Year's Resolutions tend to fail and how you can change your mindset to create goals that work. I'll share my three step process that helps insure goal setting success.
What's in this episode:
• The anatomy of goal setting that results in success.
• How to avoid the guilt and shame of January 7th.
• How a 90-day sprint can help you run a marathon.
• The 15-question goal setting template that will revolutionize your results.
Key quote: "Balance is bogus. It's really about finding harmony in different areas of your life."
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. Join Tanya Dalton as she helps you discover your passions and priorities through the power of productivity. |
| 0:08.2 | Tanya has transformed her personal productivity mission into Inkwell Press, a seven-figure business that has already changed the lives of thousands of fiercely loyal fans. |
| 0:18.2 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply |
| 0:22.0 | register at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now, here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode one, |
| 0:40.0 | The Anatomy of Goal Setting. I love that this is the very first topic of this very first |
| 0:46.3 | episode of this podcast that we are going to be tackling, and it's actually just the first part |
| 0:51.5 | in this three-part series. I love goal setting. It makes me so happy to |
| 0:58.0 | watch people set and achieve goals. And I know from my own personal experience what a huge |
| 1:04.4 | difference setting goals can make. So this is part one of this three-part series where we are going to be breaking down how to |
| 1:13.6 | set your goals and make them achievable. And I think that is really the key. It's not just about |
| 1:19.8 | how to set goals because everybody sets goals from time to time, but it's really about making an |
| 1:25.7 | actionable plan so you can achieve them. One of the things I hear |
| 1:29.9 | from a lot of people is that they don't set goals at all. Some of them say, oh, I set New Year's |
| 1:35.1 | resolutions every year and they don't really work out. And I have to be honest, I don't like New |
| 1:41.0 | Year's resolutions. I don't like them at all. And you know why? |
| 1:46.8 | Because I really don't think they work. |
| 1:48.7 | And to be honest with you, |
| 1:54.7 | 25% of New Year's resolutions are abandoned within that first week. |
| 1:56.7 | That's crazy, right? |
| 1:59.2 | That means that by January 7th, |
| 2:04.1 | one in four people feels the guilt and the shame of having failed their resolutions. And really, it's not their fault because New Year's resolutions |
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