in front of me today, i have 2 lists of new year’s resolutions - one from 2023 and one from 2024. did i accomplish my resolutions? did i fail miserably? what can we learn from my past 2 years of resolutions? today i’m going to react to them with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What are my New Year's resolutions for 2023 and 2024?
In front of me today, I have a document. A document that contains two lists. To be more specific, two lists of New Year's resolutions. One from 2023 and one from 2024. I have my last two years of New Year's resolutions in front of me today, and I'm going to react to them with you. Did I accomplish my New Year's resolutions? Did I fail miserably? Did I fall somewhere in between?
What can we learn from the past two years of my New Year's resolutions in Now in hindsight, what can we learn about the concept of New Year's resolutions? What can we learn about myself? What can we learn about the world? Today we're going to be looking at my New Year's resolutions for the past two years, reacting to them, and seeing what we discover along the way, okay?
Because I can almost guarantee we will discover at least something sort of interesting. Before we begin, I should clarify my stance on New Year's resolutions because the conversation around New Year's resolutions every year tends to be a bit polarizing. A lot of people think New Year's resolutions are pointless.
Making a bunch of goals at once is overwhelming for the average person and nothing ends up coming of it except for disappointment. Other people believe that it's incredibly helpful and that we need a reset every once in a while. And the new year is a great time for that. It's a day on the calendar that holds a lot of weight because it is the sign of a new year.
Even for the hardest working person who is the most wrapped up in the daily minutia of their life and work has to stop on new years and say, okay, we're opening a new page of our book. This is a new chapter. And there's something about that that can help even the most rigorously busy person reset and stop for a second and think about what changes should be made in their lives.
So I'm of the belief that we should all do what works for us. I think New Year's resolutions are neither good nor bad. I used to kind of hate them. I used to be a hater. I'm not anymore. I see the value in it. And for the last two years, I was like, you know, let me just give it a try. And I will say, I wrote these resolutions in the beginning of the year and did not return to them again.
I didn't check up on them on a monthly basis. So my New Year's resolutions for me were more of a seed planted. And I see a lot of value in planting seeds because it's more impactful than you would think. So without further ado, let's begin. 2023 New Year's resolutions. Let's go through one by one and discuss. Number one, find the hobbies that excite me and lean into them. Have I really done that?
Unfortunately, I would say no, I haven't. And it's very clear to me why that is. I really have a hard time making time for hobbies because even though I'm somebody who preaches to myself and to others the importance of a quality of life,
It has been very hard for me in the past to prioritize hobbies over two other very time-consuming important elements of my life that seem to make it hard for me to find time to do anything else. Number one, my work and my career. And number two, my social life with my closest loved ones. That means my family, significant other, best friends. Those two things take up 99% of my time.
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