Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

Tara Lowenthal.

Hello, my chickens.

It is almost the new year.

So I have a lot of questions and requests, of course, around the new year about resolutions

and how to know what resolutions are good goals to set and how to pick them and how to know

if they are perfectionist fantasies or not.

And if you don't know what that is, go back in the sense the episode about it, but it's

basically like how to pick goals that are the right goals for the right reasons and then

how to make sure you actually stick to them.

So I think it's such a set of brilliant questions and it's something that's really worth

diving into because when we set our goals for the year, we're really setting the intentions

that our brain is going to work on.

So many of us just set way too many, set the wrong ones or the wrong kind, and then we

don't carry them out.

We don't carry through with them.

And then we get in the cycle where we sort of don't have any integrity with ourselves.

We can't rely on ourselves.

Again, not because there's anything wrong with us, but just because we don't understand

the tools that we need and we don't know the right questions to ask and the way to set

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