Hey guys, it's Hannah Branigan.

Welcome to the first episode of drinking from the toilet in the year 2018.

If you're listening to this in real time, like when I'm recording and releasing it,

Happy New Year.

If you're listening to this way in the future from now, well, maybe this is just a

quaint historical reference.

I don't really know.

But either way, right now at the time of this recording, it is the beginning of a whole new year, a fresh start, which happens to occur on a totally arbitrary date.

But that doesn't really matter because it's entirely psychological anyways. It's not like I woke up today, a totally different person than I was on December 31st.

I'm still me. My house is still a mess,

but I still love training dogs, geeking out about behavior, and apparently I am still

podcasting and you're still listening, which is fantastic. And I'm really very excited.

So this arbitrary, air quote, new year thing leads a lot of us to think about crap like resolutions or goal setting.

Now, I've never been much into resolutions.

Okay, that's a lie.

I actually, I make resolutions all the time.

I make really extraordinary claims pretty much daily and they never stick.

Like today, I will resolve to give up dairy for good.

That's it.

No more cheese. And then it lasts about eight hours.

So, well, whatever. Anyways, the resolutions apparently sound good but aren't really my thing.

I do, however, think that goal setting is a really good thing, especially setting process-oriented

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