Hello my friends it is almost New Year's Eve is almost time to double down and

commit to our New Year's resolutions. If you haven't been listening to the

series I've been doing on New Year's resolutions.

I want to give you a quick summary of all of what I've been teaching right here and I want to tell you

a little bit more about the mini course we have inside the clutch all about how to make and

keep your resolutions. So this December I have been talking about resolutions

and talking about the idea of using them to bring your life more in line with your values.

In my book, resolutions are a really important way of orienting our lives towards our values, towards the people we want to be

and the ways that we really want to spend our time.

Our primitive brains, the part of our brain that evolved the longest to go,

does not like change, it likes stability, it likes consistency, and those things can suck.

You can be stable and consistent in your misery, in your self-harming habits, in your stagnation,

in that dead-end job, in that dead-end relationship,

watching too much Netflix in a way that doesn't feel good,

eating or drinking or shopping or using drugs

or whatever you're doing to numb out

because you don't know how to deal with your feelings.

All of that can feel horrible, but to your primitive brain

as long as it stays the same, it seems safe.

So your brain is always going to be dragging

you in the direction of staying the same.

And you have to use your prefrontal cortex, the more evolved conceptual part of your brain,

...