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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that the next few weeks are the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that the next few weeks are the preseason for resolutions.

If you get a lot of New Year, New You sorts of energy,

consciously using the next few weeks to practice your goals will get you in shape to start the new year strong. So I love self-improvement in general, of course, which means I am fascinated by the

concept of New Year's resolutions. The traditional and perhaps jaded thinking is that most of them fail. But that doesn't

mean there's anything wrong with the concept. Honestly, I just think most people do it wrong.

There's a lot of delusional thinking out there. Sometimes people set goals that they don't actually want to do. Sometimes people haven't

thought through the constituent steps of their goals, and the logistics required to fit those

steps into their lives. And sometimes we believe that we will become entirely different people on January 1st,

somehow capable of doing feats that seemed hard before.

As someone who has kept a number of New Year's resolutions,

I do think it's quite possible to set goals and follow through.

But, and this is a big but, we have to be realistic.

New habits often take a lot of practice, figuring out what works, what is compelling, what fits

with life, and doing these things over and over again until they seem more road.

You can ramp that up on January 1st.

But if you'd like to start out strong in the new year, another option is to use these next few

weeks as practice time.

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