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726: 5 Methods I Used to Keep My New Year's Resolution by Kristin Wong on Goal Setting

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🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Kristin Wong shares 5 methods she used to keep her New Year's Resolution. Episode 726: 5 Methods I Used to Keep My New Year's Resolution by Kristin Wong on Goal Setting Kristin Wong is a freelance writer and journalist who writes for Lifehacker, Mentalfloss, and New York Magazine. She frequently covers travel, personal finance, and human behavior. Kristin launched her own blog, www.thewildwong.com, to write about life as a work-from-anywhere freelancer. She aims to help other creative entrepreneurs navigate the tricky world of freelancing, from managing money to traveling the world to staying productive and getting stuff done. Kristin is a self-professed money geek and published a book about personal finance called Get Money in March of 2018. The original post is located here: https://www.thewildwong.com/how-i-kept-my-new-years-resolution/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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wallet. It's a minimalist Monday edition of optimal finance daily.

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Episode 726.

0:48.1

Five methods I used to keep my New Year's resolution.

0:51.9

By Kristen Wong of Kristen Wong.com.

0:55.0

And I am your host and narrator.

0:57.0

My name is Dan, and I'm here every weekday reading to you from some of the best personal finance

1:01.1

blogs on the planet. Now let's get right to today's post as we optimize

1:05.6

your life.

1:08.6

Five methods I used to keep my New Year's resolution by Kristen Wong of Kristen Wong.

1:18.6

You don't need a special day to change your habits and come up with goals, but January 1st is as good a day as any.

1:24.6

For a long time, I was terrible at setting New Year's resolutions, though.

1:28.4

They consistently failed because I either got bored with them or I was overwhelmed by them. This year I took a different

1:34.3

approach. I thought about why past resolutions failed, spent some time troubleshooting

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