Ben Sloot

During the holiday period, I powered through my back catalog of podcasts.^[1]I stumbled across the RoadMan Cycling Podcast^[2], who outlined three steps to creating a decent New Years’ resolution. 

1. Have a vision – write it down
2. Have reasons
3. Review daily

I think I’ve only sucsessfully stuck to one New Year’s resolution in the last 40 years.^[3] I don’t disagree that he above steps would improve the odds for success, as the podcast host cited a study that 95% of people fail at their resolution by January 15.^[4]

I do have a vision… making time to write more consistently to build skills that I’ll need when I retire, early. I do have reasons… a couple loud but undeniably cute reasons. I don’t review those long term resolutions daily., but as part of my weekly review I do.

So like last year, I’ll be setting a yearly theme. More on that tomorrow.

Happy 2023 everyone.

1. I am a completionist↩︎
2. He actually had a resolution to podcast 6 days a week all year↩︎
3. Stopped biting my fingernail four years ago, cold turnkey, and h aven’t done it since↩︎
4. and 80% of stats are made up (I made that up)↩︎