In this episode, we explore what holds us back from setting, pursuing, and achieving our New Year’s resolutions. You’ll learn practical, effective strategies for making progress toward your goals, and even learn how to rewire your brain so it’s easier to accomplish goals over time.

Listen to this episode if you don’t know where to start with making New Year’s resolutions, or if your New Year’s resolutions have failed in the past, and you want to achieve them this time around.

Key moments:

01:46 How to determine what you truly want

03:26 How you’re self-sabotaging in the goal-setting stage

05:38 Fear of failure vs. fear of judgment

08:14 Why your New Year’s resolutions fail

10:03 Why you need to set goals

12:54 The truth about dopamine

14:48 The simplest, most effective goal-setting method

16:18 The 3 things you should do right after setting your goal

20:05 Here’s how many New Year’s resolutions you should make

23:09 My 2 favorite strategies for making progress toward goals

27:22 How long it actually takes to form a habit

28:07 How I got my dream job right out of college

31:16 The $30 product that changed my life (linked below)

35:34 Upcoming CAPS LOCK episodes

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Welcome to CAPS LOCK, a podcast designed to help you live bigger, better, louder, and longer. If you don’t know where to start, this is a good place. Meet me (Sam), learn about the purpose of the show, and explore early episode topics.

CAPS LOCK premieres on December 1, 2024, and new episodes will be released every Sunday at 8 AM EST. If you like this trailer, subscribe or follow to get notified about future episodes, and please leave me a rating or review so I can continue to improve the show. Thanks for listening—talk soon!

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