Advice For Making (And Succeeding At) Your New Year's Resolution

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

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Summary

Back in November, comedian Robyn Schall found an old list of her goals for 2020. She shared the list in a video that went viral — because it turned out a lot of people could relate to a year that didn't go as planned.

Gretchen Rubin and R. Eric Thomas have some advice on how to make 2021 a little better.

Rubin writes books about happiness and habits — her latest is Outer Order, Inner Calm — and she hosts the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Thomas dispenses opinions and wisdom as a senior staff writer at elle.com. He's the author of the memoir Here For It.

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0:00.0	Sometimes as you scroll endlessly through social media, you stumble onto one
0:06.2	meme, one image, one video that is so true it almost makes all the doom
0:12.9	scrolling worth it.
0:14.2	Okay, excuse my love so I'm just you know, you know in the middle of hitting rock bottom.
0:21.7	That's comedian Robin Schall pouring herself a glass of wine. She posted this
0:26.5	TikTok video in November when she ran across a notebook entry that listed her
0:31.8	goals for 2020.
0:34.2	Okay, believe this is not hilarious.
0:37.8	Alright, go on, make more money.
0:40.2	I, you know, been on a boy since March.
0:42.9	Travel more.
0:44.9	Lose weight.
0:46.0	Be more social.
0:50.0	I'm not crying.
1:01.1	Consider this.
1:02.1	For many of us, the goals we set in 2020 have turned into a punchline, but there's always
1:08.2	hope with a new year.
1:10.2	Coming up more from comedian Robin Schall and we discuss some of your questions about
1:15.0	making resolutions for 2021.
1:18.3	From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro.
1:20.6	It's Friday, January 1st.
1:22.8	Happy New Year.
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