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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 make mid year resolutions. There is no

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Speaker 1: reason to wait for New Years. If you want to

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Speaker 1: change something in your life, now is a good time too,

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Speaker 1: and in the next six months there is no telling

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Speaker 1: what you might accomplish. Lots of people make New Year's

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Speaker 1: resolutions around January first, and as we all know, not

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Speaker 1: everyone keeps their New Year's resolutions. Life gets complicated and

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Speaker 1: change can be hard, and sometimes people don't know how

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Speaker 1: to make resolutions that actual work. As we talked about

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Speaker 1: in a previous episode this week, it can be wiser

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Speaker 1: to focus on processed goals rather than outcome goals. A

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Speaker 1: process goal focuses on the frequent, small actions that might

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Speaker 1: add up to the desired outcome, but are generally good

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Speaker 1: in their own right and help us maintain a sense

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Speaker 1: of agency. But regardless, there is nothing magical about January first.

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Speaker 1: If we make New Year's resolutions, we can equally make

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Speaker 1: mid year resolutions. The second half of the year begins

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Speaker 1: on July first, So what would you like to focus on.

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Speaker 1: If things are going well, your mid year resolutions might

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Speaker 1: be to continue or finish your new year's resolutions, as

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Speaker 1: we talked about this week, I set a goal to

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Speaker 1: read all the works of Jane Austen this year. I've

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Speaker 1: read a bit over half in the first half of

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Speaker 1: the year, so my resolution for the second half is

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Speaker 1: to complete that project. I began doing strength training regularly

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Speaker 1: with a trainer early in the year, and so my

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Speaker 1: mid year resolution is to continue that. But maybe life

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Speaker 1: has changed or things haven't gone quite as intended. If

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Speaker 1: that is the case, would you like to refocus on

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Speaker 1: any of your New Year's goals now, or maybe you'd

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Speaker 1: like to set some entirely new ones. The marathon training

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Speaker 1: plan didn't quite work out, but you could run too

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Speaker 1: local five k's with your family in the second half

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Speaker 1: of the year. Maybe you wanted to get a promotion

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Speaker 1: but your entire department was laid off. You could now

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Speaker 1: focus on spending a certain amount of time, like two

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Speaker 1: to three hours per day on your job search and

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Speaker 1: then relaxing and trying to enjoy life the rest of

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Speaker 1: the time. Or maybe you decided that your New year's

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Speaker 1: goals weren't ambitious enough. In the second half of the year,

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Speaker 1: you could ramp things up, adding an extra workout per week,

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Speaker 1: or finishing that draft of your novel when you had

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Speaker 1: just hope to get started. Life always benefits from reflection.

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Speaker 1: We naturally do this at the end of the year

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Speaker 1: and the start of the new one, but three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five days is a long time we forget

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Speaker 1: about things or we fail to redirect our motivation. By

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Speaker 1: setting mid year goals, we can continue what has gone

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Speaker 1: well and change what needs to be changed, and make

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Speaker 1: the most of the six months to come. 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 times. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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Speaker 1: hear from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,

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Speaker 1: number four then Breakfast pod. You can also shoot me

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