On this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest kick off the new year by exploring how we can relate to the past and plan for the future. Regarding getting more from 2024, they talk about different approaches to New Year’s resolutions, the tactics that maximize your chances of achieving a goal, and a simple four-question system for reflecting on and learning from the year that was.
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
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Key Topics:
- 0:00: Introduction to Getting More from 2024
- 1:05: How Rick thinks about New Year’s resolutions
- 4:05: Going from being to doing to having
- 10:15: Four questions to ask yourself around the New Year
- 22:00: A S.M.A.R.T. way to put New Year’s resolutions into form
- 25:45: Bottom-up intentions, and feeling the feeling of the completed intention
- 29:15: Trying different somatic cues for embodying an intention
- 32:00: Finding your allies, not oversharing your goals, and physically declaring priorities
- 40:45: Getting on your own side
- 51:40: Recap
