89: You Say You Want a Resolution--Goals for the New Year
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What's the scientifically best way to stick to a New Year or anytime resolution? We've got the facts here. We discuss tactics for sticking with your goals. We discuss Sarah's newest diet (she lost 16 pounds with one trick!). We discuss a frugal guru and his crazy tricks for living on a strict budget. Get inspired with this week's episode all about the things that we want to accomplish this year and the ways you can too! Let's just say Susie has a lot of books to read this year...
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:13.9 | Hello, everyone! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Happy |
| 0:19.2 | everything! But it really is still Hanukkah. It is. Merry Christmas is over. Over. |
| 0:24.5 | Oh, thank goodness. Are you? Did you already put away your Christmas stuff? |
| 0:28.6 | I should. I probably will on New Year's Eve. I will notice. I will notice. I did notice, |
| 0:35.2 | however, that the Halloween stickers that were all over your front door, that you did not put there, |
| 0:41.8 | but your child put there, are gone. Yeah. It took some doing. I could imagine. I mean, |
| 0:47.3 | those have been up for a while. I was like, maybe she's just the sticker lady now. |
| 0:51.7 | Why didn't I go in that way? I was going through the garage, so I wasn't confronted with it. |
| 0:56.4 | Right. But when I would see it, I'm like, hmm, gotta get those things out. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah, so we are no longer celebrating Halloween over here. |
| 1:04.6 | In this episode, episode 89, it's about achieving your goal. |
| 1:09.2 | I love it. We're calling it this. You say you want a resolution. Well, you know. |
| 1:17.1 | I think our listeners hate when we say this. I disagree. I think they love it. And, you know, |
| 1:22.5 | I think I'm getting better. You are. I really do. I think practice does make perfect. And you know |
| 1:28.1 | what? Remember when we did the music episode and you said, why did what? How can we, how can people |
| 1:34.1 | who don't sing or who can't you say they can't sing don't sing? They should just do it. Yeah. |
| 1:38.6 | So now I'm like, yeah, fuck it. I'm singing. So I just sing all the time. And I don't even care. |
| 1:44.4 | And then I have to remember that sometimes I'm in public and I shouldn't be singing. |
| 1:48.7 | I know. I like when people catch me doing it in the car. Oh, oh, I know shame. Jam out. |
| 1:55.1 | Sometimes if I, oh my gosh, I'll share I'll share a new year's resolution of mine from the past |
| 2:01.0 | that was like, don't text or talk on the phone and drive. And I was talking or like looking at my phone. |
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