How to Reinvent Yourself (in 2023)

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We’ve come to the end of another year, and it’s a good time to take stock and consider how we’d like to grow and change during our next trip around the sun. In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on what supports us and what holds us back from reinventing ourselves and becoming all we wish to be. They talk about how they’d like to change over the next year, different approaches to new year’s resolutions, do a little digging around in Forrest’s psyche, and highlight a few practical things we can do to support our growth. New Course From Rick! Learn the lessons of a lifetime in the new and improved Foundations of Wellbeing 2.0 program. This yearlong, online program teaches you how to grow the 12 key inner strengths that lead to lasting wellbeing during difficult times. Our New Year’s sale is going on now, and you can use the code BeingWell25 to get an additional 25% off the purchase price.Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:55: Different frameworks around goals and intentions 6:15: Forrest’s goal: more freedom, less constraint 8:50: Integrating the mundane and the profound 11:35: What supports us in changing? What constrains us? 13:35: Mentors, and other sources of encouragement 22:00: Reverting to old patterns when returning to old environments 28:00: Self-acceptance makes change possible 29:45: “Trim tabs” and other forms of psychological leverage 35:30: Diligence, effort, and consistency 37:50: Addressing deficits and reassuring yourself 40:30: Relaxing around inevitability 41:40: Embracing the joy of possibility and change 46:35: Recap Sponsors: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well. I'm Forest Hanson. If you're new to the podcast,
0:11.7	thanks for joining us today and if you've listened before, welcome back. I'm joined
0:16.2	as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson. Rick is a clinical psychologist, he's a best-selling author,
0:21.6	and he's also my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?
0:24.3	I'm really good for us, and as I said to you before we started recording here, I just
0:28.9	appreciate how kind you are to me. In general, and also giving me feedback, don't lean
0:35.8	in too far to the mic or make sure you're recording. Are you late again, Rick, or dad?
0:43.1	Yeah, I'm sorry, I am late again. Anyway, thank you.
0:47.3	Well, I try to be nice about it, and I also appreciate that you're often a very good
0:53.0	sport about all of the buttons we need to push and wires that need to be turned to get
0:58.6	this particular plate off the ground over here. I don't know, maybe it's kind of a way
1:03.1	into thinking about what we're going to be talking about today, which is how do we want
1:07.1	to be in the world, and how do we want to change in the ways that support us? Because we're
1:11.9	coming to the end of the year here, and it's that time of year that people start thinking
1:16.1	about how they want their next year to be. For a lot of people, that can take the form
1:20.0	of resolutions, and it's normal for resolutions to be about our behavior, and we can think
1:24.9	about behavior in a lot of different ways, like being nice to somebody is a behavior.
1:29.8	And a lot of people are trying to both give up maybe more problematic behaviors and embrace
1:34.6	some more positive ones. And that is great. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure we'll
1:38.3	talk about that a little bit. But today, I'd like to really focus on this and kind of an
1:43.5	inside out way, really thinking about how we can reinvent ourselves or step into new
1:49.7	ways of being in the world that support the parts of us that we really want to lean
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