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Schauer Thoughts

How to Make New Years Resolutions *Actually* Stick! Pt. 1

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Comedy, Education

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Welcome to the weekly communal Schauer, today we’re discussing the history of new year’s resolutions as well as the neuroscience of making them stick. You might be wondering “why is she taking so long on the phrasing of these goals?” That’s a wonderful question *hypothetical* listener and the answer to that is because how you speak to yourself does matter. Decisions are changes, they are pivots - pivots are a rapid change in direction that, if not taken carefully or under control, can cause significant strain and even injury. “But that’s muscle strain” - yes, however cognitive strain is also real and can cause you to fear pivots and change in the future. We’re taking this slow, step by step, because I’m talking about how to make things stick (grip) so the pivot feels solid and stable! Thank you all for making this year absolutely fabulous, I would not be where I am without all y’all’s (2nd person possessive plural pronoun btw) support and feedback. I’m wishing everyone a happy holidays, happy new year, and just a general sense of happiness as it’s very much needed. Go easy on yourselves, you got this. Free and affordable book and audiobook options (scroll down to bottom of Substack post)  https://substack.com/home/post/p-181291076  Resources:  What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change - Emily Falk The Science of Nutrition: Debunk the Diet Myths and Learn How to Eat Well for Health and Happiness - Rhiannon Lambert The History of New Year’s Resolutions https://www.history.com/articles/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions Millennials most likely to make 2026 resolutions over other generations: survey  https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/lifestyle/millennials-most-likely-to-make-2026-resolutions-over-other-generations-survey/ The Neuroscience of Goals & Behavior Change https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5854216/ How Does “Not” Affect What We Understand? Scientists Find Negation Mitigates Our Interpretation of Phrases https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/may/how-does--not--affect-what-we-understand--scientists-find-negati.html Acute Stress Impairs Inhibitory Control based on Individual Differences in Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5448703/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.9

Hi guys, welcome back to Shower Thoughts. My name is Sarah Shower. This is the podcast for

0:42.5

left and right brainers, middle brainers, anyone with a sense of smell, sight, anyone who can hear

0:48.7

something, feel something, want to feel something, welcome. This is the podcast for you so today what we're

0:55.2

going to be talking about is a two-parter new year's resolutions how can we

0:59.9

pursue them and actually follow through and we're going to be using neuroscience

1:05.1

behavioral psychology parenting techniques and you know know, the like.

1:11.0

And I'm going to talk about my New Year's resolutions.

1:14.4

I am a millennial, and I'm reading an article right now from the New York Times

1:18.2

that millennials are the generation most likely to pursue New Year's resolutions.

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So I am a statistic.

1:25.5

But it's because millennials were like, we can do something, you know,

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but actually that's not exclusive to millennials. It's just, you know, we have a residual childlike

1:37.0

sense of wonder left in some of us, and, you know, you've got to capitalize on it during these

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dark and trying times.

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But what are my New Year's resolutions coming up?

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I'm going to learn ASL.

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I'm not going to say that I'm going to be fluent.

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However, I'm going to learn it.

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I want to get back into stand-up.

2:03.3

I took a brief break from stand-up to, well, brief, to pursue studying and researching.

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