So picture this. It's the first week of January. Your brand new planner is open. The pens are lined up.

The resolutions are written. The apps are downloaded. This is the year you finally become the new you.

And for a minute, it actually feels that way. You're up early. You're eating right. You're answering emails like a machine. You're working out, meditating, maybe even reading all the books you swore you'd get to last year. And you start to think, okay, maybe this is it. Maybe I finally left the old me behind. And then, almost invisibly, it starts. You miss a workout, you snap at someone you love,

you doom scroll at midnight instead of going to bed, raising my hand here, by the way. You break one

tiny promise to yourself, and then another, and then another. And then that shiny, hopeful phrase, new year, new you,

it quietly turns into, here we go again. Same patterns, same stuck places, same you. And underneath

it all, this really painful question, if I can't become the new me I keep getting sold, does that mean I'm just not fixable?

What if the answer actually has nothing to do with your willpower or your worth

and everything to do with a story that you've been told about what it means to start over?

So in this episode, I want to share a very different way to

close out the year and begin the next one. We're going to talk about why the whole idea of a

clean slate, wipe the past, erase the old you, become someone entirely new, is not only

unrealistic, but may actually be the thing that's

keeping you from the kind of change that actually lasts. And we'll explore a quiet or a more

powerful alternative. Seeing your past self, not as a problem to toss out with last year's

confetti, but as your greatest resource.

You're built-in library of data and wisdom and truth about what you actually need to build a life that fits.

We'll look at how to turn this year into information instead of indictment.

How to stop starting from war with yourself and how to

step into the new year without trying to become someone else. But finally, walking forward as you already

are. Now, as we go along, I'm going to share a bunch of really valuable questions and prompts

that I think will be really valuable and insightful. I think you'll

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