It's the 10% happier new year and many of us may already be

struggling to keep our resolutions and even if you set aside how hard it is to

exercise more meditate more eat right, whatever,

even if you move beyond all of that,

many of us also have huge things

we're trying to accomplish in our lives,

career goals, relationship goals,

a desire to change things about the larger world and to state the obvious it can be very hard to stay on track

with these massive long-term goals.

Perseverance, keeping at it, whether it be with resolutions or overarching life goals, can be very hard.

Today we are going to hear from a master at Perseverance in some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable. How does he do it?

Brian Stevenson is an incredible human being and he's got practical advice that can work

for any of us and he has truly battle tested this advice.

He's a public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career

to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

He's the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative

based in Montgomery, Alabama.

They've won major legal challenges

eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing

and winning reversals, relief or release from prison

for over 140 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row.

He's the author of the best-selling memoir Just Mercy,

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