3224: [Part 1] Suck at New Year's Resolutions? Here's How to Fix Them by Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness on Goal Setting Strategies

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3224: Steve Kamb challenges the traditional approach to New Year’s resolutions by urging you to ditch vague goals and instead focus on building systems and habits that actually stick. By understanding how motivation fades and discipline is built through structure, you'll learn how to turn fleeting intentions into lasting routines that drive real progress. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/how-to-fix-new-years-resolutions/ Quotes to ponder: “We are creatures of habit. We are products of our environment. We are the average of the people we associate most with.” “Systems don’t rely on motivation, willpower, or inspiration to operate once they’re set up. They are emotion-free.” “When you are looking to build a new habit, start by keeping the habit small and actionable.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily.
0:02.8	Suck at New Year's resolutions, here's how to fix them.
0:05.9	Part 1 by Steve Cam of nerdfitness.com.
0:09.4	And I'm your narrator, Dr. Neal.
0:11.5	Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of Optimal Health Daily,
0:15.2	where I read some of the best blogs covering health and fitness,
0:18.6	just like an audiobook.
0:20.0	Now, today's post is a bit longer than what I typically narrate,
0:23.4	so I'll read the first half today and then finish it up for you tomorrow.
0:27.1	So for now, let's get to it as we optimize your life.
0:34.3	Suck at New Year's Resolutions, here's how to fix them them, part one by Steve Cam of nerdfitness.com.
0:41.8	Unless you have a great plan of attack, a New Year's resolution is about as useful as a flux capacitor on a car that can't go 88 miles per hour.
0:50.2	See what I did there?
0:51.7	It's that time of year again, and I want 2019 to be the year you actually
0:56.0	accomplished stuff, getting your first pull-up, running your first 5K, learning to play that piano
1:01.7	that sits there unused, taking that first trip overseas, and the way you're going to do that
1:07.0	is by saying no to resolutions. Yep, the guy who built his life around goals and wrote an
1:13.0	entire book about it wants you to stop making resolutions. Why? Because New Year's resolutions,
1:18.8	as most people think of them, are hollow. I'm going to exercise every day. I'm going to start
1:25.0	flossing. I'm going to eat better. Let's be honest, we know these things
1:29.9	aren't going to become habit. We declare a random hodgepodge of nebulous goals, and then we look back
1:35.9	at year's end and realize we never really got out of the starting gate. Want to actually get stuff
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