3 Small Things That Will Make This Your Most Peaceful Year (Just Do 1)
Lights On with Carl Lentz
B-Side
4.8 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In this solo episode of Lights On, Carl Lentz challenges everything you think you know about New Year's resolutions and personal growth. The secret to a powerfully peaceful year is not doing more. It is doing less.
Drawing from his own experience in rehab, Carl shares the moment a therapist told a room full of successful men one simple instruction. Make your bed. If you cannot do that, book your ticket back. That one idea reveals the truth about keystone habits and why one small thing done consistently raises every area of your life.
Carl delivers three powerful shifts anyone can make right now. Pick one habit to build. Pick one avoidance to embrace. Pick one grievance to release. He unpacks the neuroscience showing that approaching feared things reduces anxiety by 70 percent within days, and why holding bitterness only punishes you while the person you resent has already moved on.
This episode will challenge anyone who believes real change requires a hundred new commitments.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Better Help. |
| 0:05.3 | The new year does not require a new you, but maybe just a less burdened you. |
| 0:10.6 | Therapy can help you easily identify what weighs you down, hold you back, and offer you an unbiased |
| 0:17.3 | perspective to better understand your relationships, motivations, and emotions. |
| 0:22.1 | So in my life, as I've shared frequently, therapy plays a really important role for me. |
| 0:27.2 | And it's essential because I need space in my brain, in my heart, and we need other people |
| 0:31.4 | to help us find that fresh air sometimes. |
| 0:34.0 | I don't know if you can relate to that, but I do. |
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| 1:34.4 | better help it helps you do that so i am currently teaching my daughters eva's 19 charlie's 19 |
| 1:43.6 | about finances in a new way because |
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