Second Cup: Make mid-year resolutions

New Year's isn't the only time to choose positive change

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is to make mid year resolutions. There is no

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reason to wait for New Years. If you want to
change something in your life, now is a good time too,
and in the next six months there is no telling
what you might accomplish. Lots of people make New Year's
resolutions around January first, and as we all know, not

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everyone keeps their New Year's resolutions. Life gets complicated and
change can be hard, and sometimes people don't know how
to make resolutions that actual work. As we talked about
in a previous episode this week, it can be wiser

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to focus on processed goals rather than outcome goals. A
process goal focuses on the frequent, small actions that might
add up to the desired outcome, but are generally good
in their own right and help us maintain a sense
of agency. But regardless, there is nothing magical about January first.

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If we make New Year's resolutions, we can equally make
mid year resolutions. The second half of the year begins
on July first, So what would you like to focus on.
If things are going well, your mid year resolutions might
be to continue or finish your new year's resolutions, as

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we talked about this week, I set a goal to
read all the works of Jane Austen this year. I've
read a bit over half in the first half of
the year, so my resolution for the second half is
to complete that project. I began doing strength training regularly
with a trainer early in the year, and so my

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mid year resolution is to continue that. But maybe life
has changed or things haven't gone quite as intended. If
that is the case, would you like to refocus on
any of your New Year's goals now, or maybe you'd
like to set some entirely new ones. The marathon training

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plan didn't quite work out, but you could run too
local five k's with your family in the second half
of the year. Maybe you wanted to get a promotion
but your entire department was laid off. You could now
focus on spending a certain amount of time, like two

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to three hours per day on your job search and
then relaxing and trying to enjoy life the rest of
the time. Or maybe you decided that your New year's
goals weren't ambitious enough. In the second half of the year,
you could ramp things up, adding an extra workout per week,

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or finishing that draft of your novel when you had
just hope to get started. Life always benefits from reflection.
We naturally do this at the end of the year
and the start of the new one, but three hundred
and sixty five days is a long time we forget

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about things or we fail to redirect our motivation. By
setting mid year goals, we can continue what has gone
well and change what needs to be changed, and make
the most of the six months to come. In the meantime,
this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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the most of our times. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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