Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:19.9	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at
0:27.9	Dr. Laura.com.
0:29.8	Every time I go to the pharmacy to recognize you, they go, what's your day to birth?
0:35.6	So with people milling everywhere,
0:38.6	I go January,
0:41.3	16,
0:43.8	19, 19, 19,
0:47.2	19, 47, 47.
0:51.7	It's a tough register on my brain. So every January, I'm facing, pushing it back
1:01.9	another year. Somebody brought up something very interesting to explain aging to young people
1:08.3	who don't really understand it because they cannot imagine themselves older.
1:14.6	I remember when I was a little kid in kindergarten of first grade looking up at the tall teacher,
1:21.6	the grown-up tall teacher, and thinking, was she born that way? I didn't really understand at four or five that you're
1:34.4	born microscopic, and then eventually you grew up to be that. Because when you're four or five,
1:42.3	you think you're going to be four or five for all eternity.
1:44.5	You just don't get it.
1:47.2	So somebody explained that they saw this in a movie,
1:51.7	where they're in the Swiss Alps on top of some parapet, and there's binoculars.
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