Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter and this is going to be my best year. Number one, because I said so, you can literally speak things into existence, which thus Karen Hunter is awesome. Okay.

But I also for the last several years have been on a journey of self-discovery, of self-improvement,

of self-examination, and I realize that it's work every day. You have to intentionally make a decision to do something.

So I'm asking you, I'm inviting you to join me on this journey.

I read somewhere that it takes 21 days to build a habit.

And I was like, where did this come from?

Apparently, there was a book in the 1960s where a plastic surgeon

said that it took 21 days for his patients to adapt to their new appearance, meaning, you know,

I often talk about somebody who's lost 100 pounds. It takes them a while for their brain

and spirit to catch up with their new

body. And they're still in that 100 pound plus mind. And that's a hard thing. And it's not 21 days.

That's a misnomer. But there all of these fake scientists out there and some real scientists who

I won't call them grifters, but you know,

you know, there's so many books, do this in 10 days and, you know, all in a magazine, you know,

21 days to your best. No, no, every day is an opportunity. So what I wanted to do is kind of

share with you how I'm working through some things,

some things that I want to do.

At the start of each year, actually in December, I map out my goals for the next year.

And I've been doing this since I was at the New York Daily News.

So it's been 20 plus years. And it started

because I got a daily planner from the Daily News. They had these brown daily planners that had

really large calendar boxes. And I would fill in my days because I was writing books. I was

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