What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Mind of a Macros podcast. As always, I am your

host, Mike Milner, and today's episode, we're going to give some more tactical strategies on how

to navigate the holiday season while staying consistent with your goals. That way, like my main

goal here is that you don't feel like you're starting over in January.

And that is such a tough thing, like December, we're in December, which is kind of crazy.

But the thing about December is, like most people, we'll call it like 90%.

It's actually more than that.

But most people completely get off

track in December and start over and feel like they have to start over in January. And the problem with

that is there's not necessarily anything wrong with a fresh start. The biggest issue is that

most people go from one extreme to the other, where they just

completely stop paying attention to what they were doing, what they were focusing on because of

the holidays and family and different social events and maybe some travel and there's just a lot

going on. And your priorities kind of shift.

And then the problem when January hits is instead of looking at it from the lens of,

I need a fresh start with something that I can actually be consistent with,

we go to I need to do everything perfectly to make up for that lost time,

which is where the resolution mindset sets

in, and we know that resolutions have an extremely high failure rate. Most of them are,

most of them fail by February. That's how poor resolutions perform. It doesn't even take a month for most of them to take a back seat.

And the reason is because we kind of go from one extreme to the next. We go from the screw it,

why bother? I'm just going to, you know, get through this month and then I'll refocus in January,

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