Hello, friends. This is the hardcore health help podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Robert Duff.

Happy New Year. It is January, 26. It's taken me a little bit to get around to recording this,

but I wanted to do sort of my annual wrap-up and looking forward to the next year.

If you've been following the podcast for a while, you know that often I will do a word for the year.

And so I'm going to kind of do that this year.

Honestly, it hasn't come to me as easily as it has in previous years.

Basically, I typically think of a word for the year.

And that is my focal point.

That's my focus and my intention for the year.

I'm not big on very specific New Year's resolutions, you know, specific goals that you're

setting out to do, but I like to have a focus that I can orient toward throughout the year.

And, yeah, this year I have been a little bit uninspired, honestly, in trying to think of a word.

And it hasn't come to me as naturally as it has before.

But there have been some things, some phrases and words that have been really, really sticking in my head.

So I do want to talk about those.

And, of course, just share some personal updates.

I always like to do that here and there on the show.

I would say this isn't going to be purely, like, hopeful. I'm going to give you a real look at where I'm at and be

honest with you guys, because I think that's really important in

the stuff that I put out. So in terms of the word, the phrases that I've been sticking in my head,

one is determined, but particularly determined, but not optimistic. So let me kind of explain. I've had so many

instances over the past, you know, few years, decades, what have you, of feeling hopeful,

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