Fatal Conveniences™: New Year's Resolutions

SuperLife with Darin Olien

Darin Olien

Activism, Motivation, Environment, Education, Self-improvement, Fitness, Wellness, Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Making a New Year’s resolution is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, setting goals and setting out to improve yourself and your life is a very positive action to take. However, making unachievable resolutions is just setting you up for stress and disappointment.

Why do we start off the New Year by making resolutions we can’t keep?

Let me start off by saying I’m actually a fan of New Year’s resolutions. Every year, I reevaluate my current goals and set new ones for the year. However, I’m not a fan of unreasonable resolutions that set you up for failure. Or of the social pressure that comes every January 1st. Pressure does not create opportunity. It just creates stress.

On average, Americans make the same resolutions every year: lose weight, work out, eat better, quit smoking, save money and drink less. There’s nothing wrong with any of those resolutions. But I’m curious about the underlying reasons for them.

If you want to lose weight to look good in Instagram pictures or quit smoking so your partner stops bothering you about it- you’re more likely to break that resolution quickly. But if you want to lose weight to feel better about yourself and more content in your life, you may actually succeed! We need to start thinking about the intent behind these resolutions. Why do you want to achieve this goal?

This episode is not about ragging on anyone who sets a New Year’s resolution. It’s about learning how to make resolutions that help you improve your life. I don’t want your goals to set you on a shame spiral. I want to help you achieve all your goals in a healthy way. We need to dig a little deeper into the “why” before we can get to the “how”.

What I discuss:

[00:05:07] The First New Year’s Resolutions

[00:06:54] Ten Most Popular Resolutions

[00:08:15] Why do we make New Year’s Resolutions?

[00:12:25] How to be successful at setting and keeping goals

[00:16:01] Questions to ask yourself when a resolution doesn’t pan out

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Find more from Darin:

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Resources:
The First New Year’s Resolutions

The Average American and New Year’s Resolutions

Ringing in the New Year: A Study on New Year’s Resolutions

A Harvard Psychologist Explains the Danger of New Year’s Resolutions

If You’re Struggling This Year, Reach Out

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Hey, this is Darren O'Lean. This is another installment of
0:05.7	fatal conveniences. This is New Year's resolutions. You are gonna wanna hear
0:11.8	about this because I am going to dispel why we fail and potentially
0:17.2	set you up so that you have a better chance of achieving your goals. And that is going to be exciting because inherently as I was
0:25.6	creating this fatal convenience of course we have those pillars of success of changing
0:31.2	and creating new habits for a trajectory of you in your life moving forward.
0:36.0	So this is a perfect entry into if you want to really set up your life of eating well and losing weight and way beyond that too setting up
0:45.5	goals of what you want to achieve for your life and that's what this is all about.
0:50.3	But before we get into it I want to make sure that you're signed up for our email
0:55.2	because we're breaking down even more stuff in the coming year, and you're going to want to be tuned
1:00.6	in to the Fatal Convences'siences newsletter and of course
1:03.4	Darren O'Lean newsletter on my website so that you can get informed of what
1:08.6	we're doing and what's going on.
1:10.5	Subscribe to the podcast if you haven't done that. It helps us out a ton. So now without
1:16.4	further ado, this fatal convenience is New Year's resolutions.
1:35.8	Welcome to fatal conveniences where we address the things we may be doing in our daily lives that are actually harming us and in some cases slowly killing us. Tap water, teflon, caffeine, blue light, food additives, you name it, we dive into it.
1:43.4	We take a critical look at everyday products
1:46.2	that really are affecting us and our bodies
1:48.8	and the environment and how we can avoid them
1:51.9	and find a solution.
1:53.0	So let's dive in.
1:55.0	Before we dive in today's episode I want to thank my sponsor my great friends over
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