How To Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How To! gave dozens of people advice this year about solving their problems. Now, we track a few of them down to see how our experts' suggestions transformed their lives. We follow up with an actor trying to get buff to play a superhero, a bachelor hoping to cook one perfect meal, a therapist who can't fall asleep, an American expat who can't decide where to live and a former cop who suffers anxiety attacks. We discover a bunch of useful tips for achieving change that sticks — just in time for 2020.
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| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. |
| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. |
| 0:27.8 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.4 | So it's been, what, like three or four months since we talked? |
| 0:35.3 | It has. |
| 0:36.2 | How are the anxiety texts? |
| 0:37.7 | You know what? |
| 0:40.4 | Something clicked in my head, Charles, that I wouldn't have believed it would even be possible, |
| 0:45.6 | but God's honest truth, I have not experienced any anxiety attacks since I talked with you guys. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you. anxiety attacks since I talked with you guys. |
| 1:00.5 | This is how to. I'm Charles Duhigg. |
| 1:07.4 | As we wrap up 2019 and look ahead to 2020, we wanted to do something a little bit different today. |
| 1:12.0 | In the last year, we've brought you stories of people who want to change and advice from experts about how to make those changes happen. And this week, we thought we'd check in |
| 1:17.5 | with some of the listeners who have been on the show to see how the advice we gave them has held up. |
| 1:22.9 | But we also have another goal. It's New Year's Eve, and so many of you are probably making New Year's resolutions right now. |
| 1:30.3 | And we wondered if all of our episodes taken together, if they might offer some lessons |
| 1:34.9 | in how to make change happen, and some tips about making your resolution stick into February, |
| 1:41.2 | and March, and maybe all of 2020. For me, small improvements are exciting because that means that improvement is possible. |
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