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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to keep yourself on track for your long

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Speaker 1: term goals by revisiting your New Year's resolutions. Lots of

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Speaker 1: people make resolutions in January. If you believe the articles,

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of people have fallen off the wagon

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Speaker 1: by about February third. Long term change is hard. In general,

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Speaker 1: people are better off structuring their lives to make good

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Speaker 1: choices easy than they are relying on willpower. You can

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Speaker 1: hope you'll find time to walk for thirty minutes of

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Speaker 1: the day, or you could pay for a regular parking

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Speaker 1: spot at a garage that's a fifteen minute walk from

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Speaker 1: your office. Then you'll find yourself walking thirty minutes daily,

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Speaker 1: regardless of what you do. In any case, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: magical about January to inspire change. Year suggests a fresh start,

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Speaker 1: but you can create a fresh start anytime you want.

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Speaker 1: We are now about halfway through the year. This episode

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Speaker 1: is first launching near the beginning of July, which is

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the third quarter of the year. If

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Speaker 1: you made New Year's resolutions, can you remember what they were.

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Speaker 1: If so, great, If not, ask your friends and family

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Speaker 1: or hunt through old social media posts. Try to list

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Speaker 1: the resolution or two you felt most excited about. Now

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Speaker 1: ask yourself, is this still something i'd value for my life?

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Speaker 1: It's possible the answer is no. Maybe you wanted to

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Speaker 1: take on a big professional project and then you switched

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Speaker 1: to jobs. Are you're dealing with a family situation that's

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Speaker 1: going to preclude big new undertakings. Life happens. This is fine.

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Speaker 1: Our current selves don't need to carry our past selves burdens.

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Speaker 1: But maybe your resolutions are still relevant. You'd like to

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Speaker 1: give yourself a bedtime. You'd like to walk at lunch

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Speaker 1: three days a week. These ideas are as smart in

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Speaker 1: July as they are in January. If the resolution still

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Speaker 1: works for your life, then here's my challenge to you.

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Speaker 1: Put this resolution into your life this week. Don't say forever,

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Speaker 1: aim for just this week. See how it goes. See

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Speaker 1: if it works for you. If it doesn't, ask why.

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Speaker 1: If you don't manage to walk at lunch, it's probably

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Speaker 1: not because you're a horrible and undisciplined person. A more

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Speaker 1: likely explanation is that your eleven AM meetings keep running

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Speaker 1: over or your colleagues ask you to grab lunch with them,

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Speaker 1: and you value building relationships. That's great. So maybe you

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Speaker 1: need to walk later in the day or before work,

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Speaker 1: or maybe you need to have a conversation with the

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Speaker 1: person who runs those eleven am meetings on setting agendas,

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Speaker 1: see what you can do, and then you can try

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Speaker 1: again next week. But there's no reason to wait until

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Speaker 1: January to try anything you think would improve your life.

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Speaker 1: And there are a lot of reasons not to wait.

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Speaker 1: Here's a big one. There's still a lot of time

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Speaker 1: before January. You can do a lot of things in

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Speaker 1: six months. The popular couch to five k running program,

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Speaker 1: for instance, takes nine weeks. That means that if you

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Speaker 1: start now when this show first airs, you could run

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Speaker 1: a five k by mid September, And with that base,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing you'd be able to run a ten k

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Speaker 1: by December. Anyone able to do that is definitely winning

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Speaker 1: in the fitness department. Likewise, if you start setting a

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Speaker 1: bedtime now, it would be a strong habit by December.

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Speaker 1: Think of all the many many mornings you'll wake up

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Speaker 1: well rested before then. Starting now is a gift to

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Speaker 1: your future self. While January would have been a great

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Speaker 1: time to start. If you didn't, that's all done. July

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Speaker 1: is a great time to start too. I love that

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Speaker 1: proverb that the best time to plan to tree was

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Speaker 1: twenty years ago. The second best time is now. And

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Speaker 1: just a note for people pondering future New Year's resolutions,

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Speaker 1: I like to take some of the pressure off January.

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Speaker 1: Each year I make quarterly goals rather than New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 1: For each quarter, I make a goal in three categories career, relationships, self.

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Speaker 1: That way I can set intentions for the whole year,

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Speaker 1: twelve of them spread across all spheres of life. I

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Speaker 1: get lots of fresh starts, and even better, if I

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Speaker 1: know a goal is set for Q three, I don't

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Speaker 1: have to think about it until then. I know I'll

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Speaker 1: do it, but I can focus on other things until

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Speaker 1: we get there. So what were your resolutions last January?

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Speaker 1: Can you give yourself the fresh start of the second

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Speaker 1: half of the year. Let me know how it goes

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Speaker 1: at Before Breakfast podcast at iHeartMedia dot com. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to

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