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Everyone's heard the statistic that most people fail their New Year's resolutions.

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So then why don't you just ditch them?

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Last year, last New Year's, I actually came up with my favorite version of like replacement

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of a New Year's resolution.

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I've never really done New Year's resolutions, but I have had goals and I've always found

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it interesting and I've always found it like desirable to participate in a New Year's resolution,

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but I never really did because I knew that most people failed doing them.

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And so I, the reason why I found it like cool to do it was because then you'll be able

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to look back on your last year's New Year's resolution and see how much you grew.

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And so then I came up with a solution and where I literally just took out my notebook.

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I went to the back page of my notebook and I wrote down my stats, 2022.

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And actually it was 2023 when it was like the beginning of 2023 that I wrote that.

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And so in a couple of weeks, I'm going to be writing down 20.

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Actually well, no, when you guys hear this video in a couple of days, I'm going to be

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writing down 2024, my stats.

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And so I basically write down on the back page of my journal and I write down my stats

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2024 and I write down a bunch of like on the left hand side, bunch of options.

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So I wish I brought my journal down with me, but pretty much I wrote down all my stats.

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So my current goal, which at the time was like getting strong and building nice physique.

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So I wrote down like how much I weighed, how much I could bench, how much I could pull

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up, like how many pull ups I could do.

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Sorry if you heard that noise.

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I was really loud.

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But how many pull ups I could do, how many, how much I can bench, how like you get the

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point.

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All of the different exercises that I could do, I wrote those down.

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And then I wrote down like what was my current diet?

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How like, I don't even know what I wrote down, but for this upcoming year, I'm going to like

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ask chat GBT, the like every single stat possible.

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And I'm just going to brainstorm as many stats possible to write down and I'm going

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to write it down.

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And I also wrote down like my income.

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And that was because I kind of suspected that I might want to be focusing on income in

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the future.

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And it was true, but my income is probably not going to change so far.

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12 and a half months into the year, my income, well actually 11 and a half.

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Well it's December 22nd, but my income has not changed, but it doesn't matter because

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every single thing has grown.

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And the thing is that my like potential income is growing a lot more.

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I don't even know what that means, whatever.

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I'm just coping.

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But I just wanted to get on here and say that you should write down your stats during the

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new year.

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Like just take down a journal and write down my stats 2024 and then write down as many

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columns and things as you can think about.

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And then put your journal in the closet somewhere that you're not going to see it for the entire

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year.

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And I actually had, I used an old journal for this like back when in freshman year, like

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four years ago when I was trying to learn how to code, I had a journal and I wrote down

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like all my notes in the journal.

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And so I still had that journal, but I just used it to write my daily or my yearly stats

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on it.

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And I haven't checked it.

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I don't believe I've checked it for a year.

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So I'm going to be checking that over the next couple of days or weeks and then writing

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down the next column on it.

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So just pretty much just put it there.

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And then the reason why people, the reason why people fail their new year's resolutions

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is because they tell people about it before they even started taking action.

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I've had so many experiences in my own life and I've seen other people do this as well.

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They tell people about their goal before they even start taking action.

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And that's, it's pretty much your doom to fail now after you say that.

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So don't tell people about the stat thing that you're doing.

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Just it's, it's okay to say like, oh yeah, you should, it's okay to like suggest it to

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someone else, but don't like flat out say that you've done it or that you're writing

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it down.

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And if it comes up, just say, oh yeah, I wrote down my stats and then leave it at that.

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You don't have to say your actual numbers, but that's pretty much it for today's episode.