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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

So why do we cling to the familiar comfort of New Year's resolutions knowing well that they are a notorious failure rate. It is time for a radical shift

in our approach to personal growth and success. So this morning, I will share with you a personal

process that I've done for the past four years that has been transformative. This goes beyond

the superficiality of resolutions to something far more profound, more personal, and more importantly,

more effective. Here's the scary reality of resolutions. A mere 9% of people feel their New

Year's resolutions were successful. That is an abysmal 91% failure rate. That is so horrifying,

it's ludicrous to even attempt. Would you skydive if there was a known 91% failure rate?

Would you eat something with a 91% chance that it was poisonous and you die?

If a revolver had 10 chambers and nine of them were loaded, would you play Russian roulette with it?

Oh, hells, no, you wouldn't.

But that is the game people play with their aspirations, with their ambitions, with their

self-confidence to do better at the beginning of the year.

Here's the reason why resolutions fail.

They fail to connect with our deeper selves, our true desires and values.

Here's what I suggest you do otherwise. Write yourself a letter.

This isn't a to-do list or a set of goals. It's an intimate conversation with your future self.

Express your greatest ambitions, your most earnest aspirations, your deepest desires for yourself,

for your future, and for all those around you,

and discuss your deepest fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs, and what you aim to do to overcome

those obstacles on the path towards your desires. This is about setting a path for the year

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