Forget January! February Is The Best Month For Resolutions!

This is great news for Jack as he seems to have thrown his new years resolutions out the window. Here are some tips to maintaining those resolutions! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why February is the best month for resolutions From the
New York Times, Psychologists say now is the perfect time
to reflect on what you want and how to get there.
And I thought this is as mockable and stupid it says.
I'm kind of with you so far. First of all,
take a look at your resolutions and was it the
correct resolution to begin with. Then, if you decide it was,

(00:20):
where did you fail? Well, here's where I failed. I
said I was going to eat better, and I'm not
eating better. I said I was going to exercise more.
I'm not exercising more. That's where I failed, really, and
not doing what I said I was going to do.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
You got to sell your services. That's just good stuff.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
But I came across this, and I have applied this
in other areas in my life. So one of mine
was I was going to do a particular kind of
exercise every single day, and I did it like two days.
I mean, is my biggest failure year for New Year's
resolutions I've ever had in my life, just like some
of them, never even started one of them. I made
it for two days, but like a year or so ago.
Because I have a real procrastination problem, particularly with paperwork,

(00:58):
and a therapist type told me, he said, do one thing,
do one thing every day, one thing, And I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, but I'm never gonna get everything done one thing.
It'll take me a year before I get through my pile.
I've got all this stuff. I gotta get to do
one thing. And I started doing that, and you know
what happened. After a week, I had seven things done.
Whereas if I had gone with my but I gotta
get all of it done, I wouldn't have done any
of it right. So I did one thing and it
says here, and I think it is good.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Make your If you failed at your resolution, you've determined
you still want to do the resolution, but you failed,
consider a goal that's embarrassingly manageable, like just ridiculously manageable,
like doing one thing in your pile every single day,
like just you know, do one push up every day,
or just stupidly manageable. It's so much better than not

(01:45):
doing it at all.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's very similar to an idea we came across to say,
I think a couple of years ago that I found
incredibly liberating, And that's if there's something you want to do,
but you can't get yourself to do it for me,
it's writing or recording or whatever. Do five minutes, say,
I will sit down, and I will look at that
keyboard and I will try to write for five minutes.
If it ain't happening, I'll get up, having fulfilled my bargain.

(02:09):
But that easy, easy, bite sized beginning often turns into
real productivity.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And if it doesn't, that's fine. All you said was
five minutes. I'm going to reset on this groundhog day
and go with unembarrassingly manageable expectations. You can do it,
armstrong and get it