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Making resolutions · Lori 365'ish

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everybody, and thanks for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to talk about resolutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I know that it's not New Year's,
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  SPEAKER_00: but whether it's the beginning of a new year or just the beginning of a new thought,
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  SPEAKER_00: we make resolutions in our lives,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it could be that we want to lose weight or exercise more,
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  SPEAKER_00: paint more frequently,
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  SPEAKER_00: keep up with friends better,
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  SPEAKER_00: Eat more greens or whatever it is that we want to take charge of or be better
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  SPEAKER_00: at doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that resolution asks until we get up the next day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we start having self-doubt.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the painting time is spent painting the bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And eating more greens means just adding lime to your margarita.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes I think we're so hard on ourselves
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  SPEAKER_00: that we feel like we can't just do one simple thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of folks I know right now who are dealing with some pretty serious stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that can be a source of almost guilt when I don't make the best of my day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't do something that I resolved the night before to do better the next day,
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  SPEAKER_00: like exercise or whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that just makes me more anxious and more upset with myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it really does nobody any good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so my resolution is to stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Setting goals for myself that seem unrealistic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having a goal that is actually attainable is going to make me feel better about things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that is just that I need to get some thumbnail sketches done for something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it is just that I need to take
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  SPEAKER_00: A few minutes to do something nice for myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be something that's labor intensive or something that we don't want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be some resolution to be kinder to ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think every moment of every day, we have an opportunity to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to wait for New Year's.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to even wait for the next day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can simply say in this next moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to Say something to myself that makes me feel a little bit better.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next step then is to pass that thought on to somebody else who might need to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so make yourself feel better and then make somebody else feel better.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'd like for us to all do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks.