New Year's Resolutions

<p>New Year's Resolutions end with just 8% succeeding (or just making it to February) depending which sources you look at! As we discuss our own experience's with resolutions, we discuss it's relation to making impact on our habits.</p><ul><li>Why are you even making your resolution? External or internal factors differ drastically in their effect on lasting behavior change. (And check out our previous episode on Willpower <a href="https://ofleadership.simplecast.com/episodes/4a76e1da">here</a>!)</li><li>Is will power a muscle you strengthen and grow, or a tank which you slowly (or quickly) deplete? Zac's anecdotal study (which he claims he once read!) says this affects your ability to stand firm in the turmoil of change.</li><li>John proposes the idea of using January as a "testing period" to try out your resolution and consciously evolve it into something maintainable. He then makes a pleading case for us frame our resolutions each day in terms of the economics theory of sunk cost; each day, ask yourself, regardless of what you did yesterday, and do what is right for you.</li></ul><p>Love us? Or even just a like us? Find more [of Leadership] at...</p><ul><li>Our website <a href="https://ofleadership.com/">ofleadership.com</a></li><li>On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ofleadership">Facebook</a></li><li>On <a href="https://twitter.com/ofLeadership1">Twitter</a></li><li>Via email at <a href="mailto:ofleadership@gmail.com">ofleadership@gmail.com</a></li><li>Our "sponsor" <a href="SteepTeaBox.com">SteepTeaBox.com</a></li><li>Like the tunes? Check out <a href="http://jetler.audio/">Jetler</a></li><li>And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and leave a review!</li></ul>