Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the

podcast, perhaps because you are listening to us on New Year's Day,

welcome, it's great to have you.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen.

Rick is a clinical psychologist, a best-selling author,

and he's also my dad, so dad, happy new year.

Out with the old, in with the new, hopefully that which sucked last year will dissipate and that which was great

last year will continue and even grow. And that's exactly what we're going to be talking about today.

So today we're focusing on setting ourselves up for the year ahead.

And in particular, I really wanted to talk about all of the things that support and

enable a person,

regardless of what individual goals they might be pursuing

or what they might be focusing on in their life

and maybe even introduce some different ways

of approaching the new year.

And that's where I'd like to start that.

How do you think about New Year's? Are you a New Year's resolutions guy?

Like how do you just approach this whole territory?

I would say that I'm big on planning in general. Now partly

that's because I'm a social seven in the anagram I like imagining different

attractive futures but I've really come to also, you know, be haunted a little in retrospect

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