161. Why we don't make New Year's Resolutions & What We Do Instead!!

House of Joy- Christian Life Coaching

Dr. Edie Wadsworth

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Christianity, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

New Year, New Me! Right?? If you are like us, then like clockwork, the new year comes around and suddenly you feel this intense pressure to CHANGE EVERYTHING!!! Is it wrong to have resolutions? Are we setting ourselves up for failure? In this podcast episode Edie and her daughter Emme discuss the importance of perseverance and continuous effort in achieving resolutions. Edie shares her approach of setting 90-day goals instead of year-long resolutions, and Emme shares her struggles in sticking with goals. They also talk about the pressure and comparison in goal-setting, especially in the era of social media. The hosts encourage reframing failure as a stepping stone towards success and practicing self-compassion. They emphasize the idea of enjoying the journey rather than fixating on the end result. In today's episode of House of Joy Dr. Edie and her daughter discussed: 01:30-Emme talks about how her day started 04:15- Edie talks about why she loves the New Year & why Emme hasn’t always 06:28- They discuss the value of writing down your goals- Is it necessary? 08:50- Stats on New Year's resolutions 09:30- Edies biggest epic fail of a new years resolution 13:09- Edie brings up blog post from 2012- speaks on how she frames her goals to actually achieve the reward and her approach to the New Year 15:00- How to become a person who does what they say they will 19:25- 90 day goals 24:20- Setting fun goals 26:18- The lie of social media- how to frame our thoughts about goals to get rid of pressure and comparison 30:00- Wake up! Our dreams our God given 37:13- Edie and Emme’s favorite things for the week Episode Resources: Connect with us!! Watch our podcast on youtube! Instagram- @houseofjoypodcast Edie's Instagram- @ediewadsworth Learn about Life Mentoring school here! - ediewadsworth@coaching.com/enroll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.
0:10.3	I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.
0:16.3	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
0:20.4	Whohoo.
0:23.6	Episode two, Emmy, House house of joy let's go
0:25.4	you guys we are so excited to be back
0:30.5	today we're talking about
0:31.9	new year's resolutions the new year baby
0:34.6	the new year baby we're in it i know we're in it. I know, we're in it. Happy 2024, by the way.
0:40.6	Listen, I was just reading the girls.
0:43.8	Not an episode.
0:45.7	A blog post.
0:46.9	From 2012.
0:48.4	I wrote about the new year every year that I blogged.
0:51.1	So I'm going to read a little piece of that to you in a minute.
0:53.4	But we're going to talk about New Year's resolutions, why we don't do them.
0:57.6	Yep. And what we do instead. It's revolutionary. It's revolutionary. And mostly it's going to be
1:04.0	just a fun conversation between me and my daughter, Emmy. We're sitting on the couch. We've got
1:09.6	our slippers on. We have our slippers. We have our slippers on. We have our
1:11.0	slippers. We have the dog here. We have our drinks in our little mugs. So we're just happy to be here.
1:17.1	Yes. Now, Emmy, I want you to tell me, we thought we would start with a little confession from each of us.
1:25.3	Yeah. So, Emmy, how did your week go?
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