How to Turn Your New Year's Resolutions into New Year's Results (Ep. 245)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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New Year's resolutions are a noble concept, but they tend to have a pretty terrible success rate. We talk about implementing and sticking to new goals. Full show notes This week’s episode is sponsored by: Brilliant: Accelerate your learning in math, science, and computer science. Start learning for free at Brilliant.org/CollegeInfoGeek — and if you’re one of the first 83 people to use this link, you’ll also get 20% off your subscription. Audible: Get a free audiobook download and a free 30-day trial by going to audible.com/CIG or texting “CIG” to 500-500 on your phone. Things mentioned in this episode: Martin and Thomas’ 2018 Year in Review (Ep. 244) Thomas' Productivity course on Skillshare John Green's How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions video The Laws of Human Nature, by Robert Greene The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:02:18 - Announcement: Thomas' productivity course on Skillshare 0:05:11 - Figuring out the things you really want to accomplish and acting on them 0:20:20 - Sponsor: Audible (Listening to audiobooks) 0:23:49 - Sponsor: Brilliant (Learning problem-solving skills) 0:25:38 - Figuring out the things you really want to accomplish and acting on them (continued) 0:33:00 - Being realistic about your limitations 0:39:27 - Recap and conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:36.4	podcast the internet's best resource for becoming a better student
0:40.0	but a terrible resource for learning how to properly conduct nautical nonsense.
0:45.0	Nautical nonsense.
0:46.0	You're not going to learn how to do that here.
0:48.0	It's quite important, though.
0:49.0	So you should learn it.
0:50.0	Yes, if it'd be something you wish, you should learn it. I don't know where you can go to learn that. Anyway, my name is Thomas Frank. I'm here as always my good friend Martin and welcome to 2019, sir.
1:00.0	That's a, thank you. Well, yeah, it's a nice place.
1:04.0	Nice place you got here in 2019.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:07.0	It's all right so far.
1:08.0	It's been around for what three days now?
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