It's natural to want to make changes to your life around the beginning of the year. If you made a New Year's resolution, are you still sticking to it nearly two months in? If you're like most people, the odds are that you're not.

In this episode, we explore what motivates us to make resolutions at that time of the year, why it's the wrong time, and how we can begin to create habits that not only last the entire year, but a lifetime.

 

Links

• Be sure to check out other major stories from the February 21st edition of The Full Monty newsletter: A female engineer told a harrowing tale of sexual harassment, HR threats, and a dwindling percentage of women engineers at Uber. It's an explosive post that goes into great detail about the situation.
• AI is surrounded by marketing hype, jargon, inflated expectations, and fear. Two experts offer realistic and thoughtful ideas about AI in our society and economy.
• Cisco released its 2017 Cybersecurity Report, which indicated that over one-third of organizations surveyed that reported a breach in the last year, said that they experienced significant customer, opportunity, and revenue loss.

 

Credits

Theme song: "The Liberty Bell," by John Philip Sousa, performed by the United States Marine Band and shared under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.

Incidental music: "One More Stripper" by APAMusic, royalty-free license from Pond5.com.

Voice over: Toni Deckers

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