Everyone's heard the statistic that most people fail their New Year's resolutions.
So then why don't you just ditch them?
Last year, last New Year's, I actually came up with my favorite version of like replacement
of a New Year's resolution.
I've never really done New Year's resolutions, but I have had goals and I've always found
it interesting and I've always found it like desirable to participate in a New Year's resolution,
but I never really did because I knew that most people failed doing them.
And so I, the reason why I found it like cool to do it was because then you'll be able
to look back on your last year's New Year's resolution and see how much you grew.
And so then I came up with a solution and where I literally just took out my notebook.
I went to the back page of my notebook and I wrote down my stats, 2022.
And actually it was 2023 when it was like the beginning of 2023 that I wrote that.
And so in a couple of weeks, I'm going to be writing down 20.
Actually well, no, when you guys hear this video in a couple of days, I'm going to be
writing down 2024, my stats.
And so I basically write down on the back page of my journal and I write down my stats
2024 and I write down a bunch of like on the left hand side, bunch of options.
So I wish I brought my journal down with me, but pretty much I wrote down all my stats.
So my current goal, which at the time was like getting strong and building nice physique.
So I wrote down like how much I weighed, how much I could bench, how much I could pull
up, like how many pull ups I could do.
Sorry if you heard that noise.
I was really loud.
But how many pull ups I could do, how many, how much I can bench, how like you get the
point.
All of the different exercises that I could do, I wrote those down.
And then I wrote down like what was my current diet?
How like, I don't even know what I wrote down, but for this upcoming year, I'm going to like
ask chat GBT, the like every single stat possible.
And I'm just going to brainstorm as many stats possible to write down and I'm going
to write it down.
And I also wrote down like my income.
And that was because I kind of suspected that I might want to be focusing on income in
the future.
And it was true, but my income is probably not going to change so far.
12 and a half months into the year, my income, well actually 11 and a half.
Well it's December 22nd, but my income has not changed, but it doesn't matter because
every single thing has grown.
And the thing is that my like potential income is growing a lot more.
I don't even know what that means, whatever.
I'm just coping.
But I just wanted to get on here and say that you should write down your stats during the
new year.
Like just take down a journal and write down my stats 2024 and then write down as many
columns and things as you can think about.
And then put your journal in the closet somewhere that you're not going to see it for the entire
year.
And I actually had, I used an old journal for this like back when in freshman year, like
four years ago when I was trying to learn how to code, I had a journal and I wrote down
like all my notes in the journal.
And so I still had that journal, but I just used it to write my daily or my yearly stats
on it.
And I haven't checked it.
I don't believe I've checked it for a year.
So I'm going to be checking that over the next couple of days or weeks and then writing
down the next column on it.
So just pretty much just put it there.
And then the reason why people, the reason why people fail their new year's resolutions
is because they tell people about it before they even started taking action.
I've had so many experiences in my own life and I've seen other people do this as well.
They tell people about their goal before they even start taking action.
And that's, it's pretty much your doom to fail now after you say that.
So don't tell people about the stat thing that you're doing.
Just it's, it's okay to say like, oh yeah, you should, it's okay to like suggest it to
someone else, but don't like flat out say that you've done it or that you're writing
it down.
And if it comes up, just say, oh yeah, I wrote down my stats and then leave it at that.
You don't have to say your actual numbers, but that's pretty much it for today's episode.