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Why are New Year's Resolutions so popular? Because we always have hope that things can get better. It's how we survive. The start of a new year can feel a lot like moving to a different city and starting over. Opportunities seem endless, and you can develop yourself into someone completely different. Unfortunately, most resolutions tend to fail unless they're properly managed. It's important to first understand that changing your life and acquiring new habits is more of a cyclical process - a constant back and forth. In our experience, we've found that there's a few critical things you can do set yourself up to achieve your resolution goals. In this episode we discuss our 2018 resolution - what we called "The Year of Content" at the beginning of the year, and break things down into four main takeaways: Have a big purpose, but make sure your resolution is actually an achievable goal Create systems of external accountability Create a process you can stick with so it's not easy to quit Reward yourself and celebrate your wins to increase the chances of forming new habits that stick We tie these concepts into the creation of The Mentors Podcast this year, and why we think we were able to make big progress towards our "year of content" goal this year. We also make parallels to other popular resolutions, like weight loss, and talk about how successful entrepreneurs like Scott Belsky of Behance (acquired by Adobe) get past potential points of failure/giving up when things seem very uncertain. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.