270. Plan A Plan B: The Secret to Resolutions
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
I like to call this the most delusional time of the year because many of us use this time to make goals and resolutions for the coming year that are completely unrealistic for the people we are right now. No wonder many resolutions go unfulfilled; our goals are out of touch with reality. Tune in to this week’s podcast episode to learn one simple concept that will change your habit-making life, how this concept can keep your goal alive even when all hell breaks loose, and how you can tell whether or not your goal is really just a fantasy you’re chasing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:29.6 | It is the official start of the holiday season. |
| 0:33.5 | And I can tell that mentally I'm really ready to be done for the year. |
| 0:37.7 | Like I am up for a six week nap, |
| 0:40.6 | but unfortunately I still have to write quite a bit of a book, so just details there. |
| 0:46.9 | But I am looking forward to things slowing down, being able to focus on the book, spending some |
| 0:51.3 | time with friends and family. |
| 0:54.0 | And inexorably, I think, as the holidays wind on, we start hearing and thinking about |
| 0:59.8 | New Year's and New Year's resolutions. |
| 1:02.8 | And I've done a couple of episodes |
| 1:05.0 | on New Year's resolutions in the past. |
| 1:07.3 | And at the end of this episode, |
| 1:08.6 | I'm actually gonna give you a quick free way |
| 1:10.4 | to get all of them sent to you. But today I want to introduce you to a concept that I call |
| 1:15.1 | Plan A, Plan B. |
| 1:17.4 | And this is a great tool for when you're setting any kind of habit-based goal. |
| 1:23.0 | I think especially around New Year's when we tend to be at our most kind of perfectionistic, |
| 1:29.3 | aspirational goal-setting time of year, or you can even say our most delusional time of year |
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