Not everyone makes New Year’s Resolutions, but is it worth it for anyone for 2021? This week we discuss why you should make a New Year’s Resolution, different approaches to making them and how to structure them to set you up for success.
More than anything, New Year’s Resolutions are about goal setting – which is a great habit to build – the habit of setting and achieving goals. As part of the Leading With Nice Daily series, we look at how we can use what we experienced in 2020 as a way to inform and encourage creating a New Year’s Resolution for 2021. But we include some great tips and approaches to creating one.
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Good day and welcome to the Leading With Nice Daily. My name is Mathieu Yuill, and we want to help you inspire others, build loyalty and get results. Now, today, I want to talk to you about New Year’s Resolutions. Should you make one? Should you not make one? What should it look like? And today I’m going to just speak very broadly about new New Year’s Resolutions, and that you should make what I’m going to encourage you now throughout the rest of this week, we’ll talk a and the rest of this video, we’ll talk about what it might look like. You know, traditionally people are like, Oh, I’m going to lose weight, stop smoking, et cetera, et cetera. We’ll talk about a few different solutions, but I want to encourage you to make one for one strong reason and that’s to build habit what a New Year’s Resolutions, regardless of what form it takes.
It actually helps you learn how to make a new habit. So how to unlearn some things and learn new things. And it’s one of the efforts you can make that just happens every day. That as, as part of your routine, you don’t need to necessarily set aside time for it, but you can do it as part of your day now, uh, in the following, uh, days of this. And if you’re watching this on video and the rest of the video, I’ll talk about some different strategies. Uh, I of course will not advocate things like, you know, losing weight, new year’s resolution or a stop smoking those, I don’t think are the right way to go, but we’ll talk more about that later on. I’ll see you tomorrow.
Good day, and welcome back to the Leading With Nice Daily. My name is Mathieu Yuill, and we want to help you inspire others, build loyalty and get results.
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Now in today’s video on today’s audio, uh, depending on where you’re listening, I want to talk to you about the types of resolutions you should make. So, first of all, I want you to get out of your mind that you’re going to make a resolution about losing weight or quitting smoking or something like that. Aim way lower. Uh, for example, have a resolution of making your bed every day, have a resolution of maybe not drinking a certain kind of drink. So maybe pop or, uh, or maybe that you want to stop drinking as much dairy or having less cream in your coffee, or have a resolution that you’ll take the stairs. If it’s just one flight, you won’t take an escalator or an elevator, a resolution like that. Now all, I don’t want you to aim for a hundred percent. That’s dude, that’s hard and being perfect is really hard.
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What I want you to aim for is 80%. So if you make your bed four out of five days, that’s a win. If you take the stairs, uh, eight times out of 10, good for you. That’s the goal I want you to achieve. And that’s how I want you to look at your new year’s resolution. Now, tomorrow, we’ll talk about some alternatives to the traditional new year’s resolution, where you say I’m going to take the stairs instead of taking an escalator or an elevator. If it’s one flight or, um, I want to make my bed every day, we’ll talk about different alternatives to that new year’s resolution. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
Good day and welcome to the Leading With Nice Daily. My name is Mathieu Yuill And this week we’re talking about new year’s resolutions. Should you make them, what should they look like?
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How should you carry it out? And I’ve already recommended earlier this week, or if you’re watching the video earlier this video, that yes, you should make a new year’s resolution. And we’ve also talked about the type of resolution you should make. I encouraged you to aim low something very achievable. You want to win it this by winning you to be teaching yourself that Hey, a new habit is worth taking on. So when you go to try a harder habit for something more serious in your life, you’ll have a greater chance of success. Now, if a new year’s resolution, the traditional type that I’ve spoken about doesn’t work for you. Here are a few different alternatives. You could try create a bucket list for this year. Uh, one thing that I had hoped to do in 2020 was I wanted to introduce my children to different cultural arts programs.
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So for example, we were gonna check out, uh, the opera, the, we were gonna check out a live theater, a musical theater, and we were going to also check out the ballet. And those were four things I just wanted to expose my children to those four things. It was a bucket list. And so obviously I wanted to hit a hundred percent of those four things, but you could also try, uh, going on three different road trips. You could try trying new food. And when you go to a restaurant, uh, one resolution I had one year was to say yes to every new food offered me. Now, once I tried it, once I had said yes to it. So I could say no in the future, but I actually discovered a lot of great food and it just taught me to try new things. So another thing you can try is maybe a 30 day challenge.
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So you could set 30 days and you’ll do something over 30 days and break it up, maybe try three sets of 10. And finally, uh, you could try a reboot of an area of your life. So maybe something that you, uh, have done in the past, but want to try out again, it could be a hobby. It could be a friendship, could be a way you approach something. Some that you’ve tried in the past, but didn’t quite achieve. It’s something that you long for reboot that and try it again tomorrow. We’ll talk about potential themes for 2021 and how that might be your new, your new year’s talk to you again tomorrow. Hi there. My name is Matthew you’ll from leading with nice, where we want to help you inspire others, build loyalty and get results. Today. I want to talk to you about some potential themes for your new year’s resolution, your bucket challenge, your a 30 day challenge, your reboot, some themes.
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And what I want to encourage you to do is to look back at 2020 and consider a theme to be the opposite of what you experienced. What did you miss out on in 2020 because of the state of our world, potentially it could be something about reconnecting with people. It could be a health theme. It could be a reading theme and education theme. So what I mean by that is if you choose a healthy, maybe you’re going to make a commitment to, um, have a salad one day a week for lunch. Uh, and then also maybe you will, uh, walk to the corner store instead of driving these just themes, right? And maybe it’s not even a salad once a week maybe, you’re going to make a conscious, conscious decision to eat more solid. And I want to encourage you also, if you do that, start keeping a journal, measuring it.
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How often are you going? And again, combine this with a 30 day challenge, combine this with a bucket list. So if it’s a healthy team, maybe write down 10 things you want to do this year. And as you do them, check them off. If you, uh, maybe you want to go opposite from something. So perhaps you worked sitting down, maybe your theme could be standing up. See you look for more opportunities to set up. So if you stop by a coffee shop, instead of sitting down, maybe you’ll stand at the counter, uh, or, uh, uh, uh, a cruiser style table, instead of sitting down at your desk, maybe you’ll just keep track of once an hour. You stand up and move around a theme. And again, put this into either the resolution where you’re keeping track and aiming for 80% or put it into a bucket list or a 30 day challenge.
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Just a few ideas, think of a theme, combine it with an alternative way for doing a New Year’s Resolution. We’ll talk to you again tomorrow.
Thanks very much good day and welcome to the Leading With Nice Daily. My name is Matthew Yuill, and we want to help you inspire others, build loyalty and get results. Today is the last day of our conversation. If you’re listening in via audio, if you’re watching a video, it’s the end of the video. And what I want to talk to you about today is getting back to goal setting in 2020. A lot of our goals evaporated. We didn’t have the opportunity to complete them, to finish them, to work on them. And what that did to us as a society is it discouraged us. We didn’t, we don’t have something at the end of this year to look back on and remember fondly in a lot of cases there, of course are some things I think of sports channels that play like highlights from the year.
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There’s going to be a lot less of them, or there’ll be a lot less exciting because there won’t be those live fans in many cases, or there’s just not as much of the sports played to give the huge library of great plays to choose from the same with our lives. There’s just a lot less to choose from in 2020. You know, I think about, uh, a virtual live involved in when we speak about a weekly highlight from the past week. And there were times legitimately this year where I was like, yep. Um, I don’t know. I had the coffee was really good that I got from my pot the one day. Like it was hard sometimes because the volume just wasn’t there. So let’s get back to goal setting 2020 is over what new goals, even if we’re in a similar situation for part of 20, 21, or even a large part of it, what goals can we set that we can achieve given our current reality. And let’s be able to look back in a year from now and say, Hey, here’s some goals I set and I achieve them. That’s what I want to encourage you to do today. Thanks very much for listening this week or watching this video. I’m Mathieu Yuill, I’ll talk to you again soon.