Just because I'm black or white or Jewish or whatever, I don't have to be the negative things that they say. Early on in life, I made up my mind that I was just going to do and be the opposite of what they say. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I am your host, Sean Croxton, as Sean Croxton.com. Happy New Year to you, my friend. We are officially in the year 2026, which is crazy to me. Because 2025 went by so fast. It was like it was New Year's Day. I remember the day. I was a little sick. I'm in bed.

I'm watching a ball game. And I went to sleep and then I woke up and it was like December already.

It just went by that fast. And even though it is 2026, we're going to continue our best of 2025 series because I'm no quitter.

We're going to finish this thing. We're reading in QOD Club, one of our book clubs, we're reading Finish. Give Yourself the Gift of Done by John Acuff, fabulous book. You need to read it, especially if you want to be serious about your New Year's resolutions. Like get the book right now. Read it. You will thank me. But since we're reading that book, like I'm very much committed to finishing things.

And so we're going to finish this up

tomorrow, our best of series. And then on Monday, we will start brand new episodes for the new

year. We got Reverend Ike on the show today. And today's featured quote is this.

I don't have to be what they say I am.

And I wanted to feature this particular clip on this particular day because there's a lot of resolutions going on today.

A lot of people talking about what they're going to do this year.

Well, let's just all be honest. Let's just tell the truth. Right. This is a space for honesty.

Most of y'all ain't going to do it. Right? 90% of the people listening to me right now, what I would hope because y'all listen to the show every day, there were five days a week that the statistic would be better for my audience. But the general, like, country, the general

population, 90%, actually 92% of our New Year's resolutions will not be accomplished. The vast

majority of them will be done in about 10 to 14 days.

And when I say done, I don't mean accomplished because that would be too easy.

But I mean like done.

Like falling back into your old habits.

Falling back into your own, your old patterns, right?

Just gone back to being the person you were because change is

hard. Your brain likes to conserve calories and change doing different things, thinking different

thoughts, becoming someone new, putting yourself out there requires a lot of like brain like fuel.

Requires that your brain burns a lot of calories doing something different.

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