Welcome to Episode 242 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host Paula Phelps, thanking me for joining us as we begin a brand new year.

As we start this year, many of us have set resolutions, or maybe we're still trying to decide what it is we want and what we need from the next 12 months.

Today's guest, Dr. Andrea Giglin, is an expert in

positive psychology who also is known as Dr. Success because she helps business leaders learn how

to define and reach their goals. Today, she's sharing those same practices to help you create

goals for the coming year, learn how to think differently and prepare yourself

to accomplish those goals. Andrea, welcome back to live happy now. It is always a pleasure

to have you on the show. Thank you. And it is always a pleasure to be here because your messages

I follow them and I really love what you put out on social media of the articles in the various podcasts.

I really appreciate it.

Well, thank you.

You know, as we were looking at the beginning of a new year, and we wanted to do something

that talked about setting goals versus setting resolutions, so of course you came to mind.

Thank you.

And so I thought that we could start this by having you explain to us a difference between setting a goal and setting a resolution.

You know, for me, and there's a lot of personal experience, you know, I once was a teenage girl, and I remembered setting those resolutions.

I want to have a boyfriend, you know,

I want to lose the same 10 pounds. I was that teenager, you know. And as I evolved and in my education

and in my life, what I realized was I was a statistic. And that statistic is the one that, you know, your listeners are going to be

reading a lot this week, how many days it takes before the resolution fails, and I wanted to

know how to do that differently. And luckily, my life's work helps get me there. And so a resolution,

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