Welcome to episode 3,031 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day

three of the series we're exploring this week. It's all about integrity as we are into the

third week of this brand new year as I record this and in this third week this is the time where statistically

it's shown that many people give up already even after just two weeks on their New Year's

resolutions and goals. So much so that many people are not even creating resolutions.

They've given up completely on that idea

because they didn't see results.

Now, there is a way to create resolutions and actually achieve them and there's a way to create resolutions

that is more like wishful thinking.

I will say that is more like wishful thinking.

I will say that many people use affirmations

or even meditation techniques,

not strategically or with intention but as wishful thinking so they find that they don't

achieve results whatever you do in your life whether you're creating a New Year's resolution or you're working

on a relationship or you're trying to progress your career, you must do it with intention and have some kind of strategy.

Sometimes things fall in your lab and things work out, but that's not usually the case,

because sometimes when things fall in your lap,

you don't even know it because you haven't really considered

what it is you're searching for,

or what it is that you want in your life, what you want to strive for. So in the past two

series you explored setting a word that represented your year and this is a word

that helps to ground you throughout the year. People came up with words such as peace or fearlessness or

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