Start Now: Mid-Year Resolutions

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We're halfway through a very strange year, and it's a good time to take stock, check in with ourselves, and establish some new commitments – even if they’re as simple as being kind to ourselves. One way we can reclaim our experience of agency is by finding where we do still have influence over our outcomes. And that’s what we’ll be exploring today: how to start anew under the circumstances we find ourselves in. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 3:45: Hope and disappointment. 7:30: Reckoning, repentance, and renewal. 11:00: Controlling what you can. 14:00: Coping with self-criticism and shame. 18:30: How to approach the future. 20:45: Building key habits. 24:00: Changing our identity in order to change our behavior. 26:30: Forrest's changing identity - moving into empathy. 29:30: Using key phrases. 31:00: Rick's changing identity - feeling like a good person. 34:00: Realistic optimism. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. From Dr. Hanson: Hardwire lasting change into your mind and heart in just a few minutes a day with Dr. Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price! From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Hansen and as we begin this
0:08.6	episode which I'm really looking forward to today let's if it's appropriate in your time and place, probably not while
0:15.1	you're driving a car, close our eyes together. And imagine, if you will, that it's the end of
0:20.8	December in 2019. Depending on where you live, the sun may or may not be shining,
0:26.0	the birds may or may not be chirping, and if you believe in that sort of thing,
0:29.8	you may have set some sort of intentions, even resolutions for the next year.
0:35.6	There may have been a sense of hope and optimism and general look forward to it-niss for the year
0:41.6	ahead. And then 2020 happened. And needless to say, I think that most of us
0:47.5	didn't exactly have what this year has brought us in mind back in January. We've been in
0:51.9	quarantine, we've come face to face with a reckoning
0:54.7	with some of the worst parts of human nature, and we've been exposed to, I mean
0:58.7	being frank about it, some really serious collective trauma.
1:03.0	In that broader context, talking in terms of whether someone stuck to their resolutions this year
1:09.0	sounds at best to try it, if not insensitive and actively ridiculous if you manage to do so then wow my
1:17.1	hats really off to you but I certainly haven't nor have I really tried to since about March given all the disruptions
1:25.0	that have happened to other layers of our lives. But today it's worth noting that
1:30.2	it's July. We're halfway through what has been a thoroughly strange year and it's a good time to take
1:35.2	stock, check in with ourselves, and maybe even establish some new commitments, even if they're just
1:40.9	as simple as being kind and forgiving to ourselves of what has happened with the year so far.
1:46.0	When things happen to us that we're not in control of, it's easy for that to be demotivating and to kind of sap our sense of underlying agency. And that feeling of agency
1:55.2	is really critical for mental health. One way that we can reclaim it is by
1:59.0	finding where we do still have influence over our outcomes and that's what we'll be exploring today, how
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