Stick to your Goals with Dr. Maya Shankar on Slate's How To! Podcast
A Slight Change of Plans
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New Year's Resolutions Are a Good Start, Right?
We're better at sticking with our goals when they are accompanied by any kind of fresh start. We want to create a system where there is that plasticity, that malleability that allows you to change your strategy as needed. If the New Year's goal was, OK, for the next five days, I'm going to try to go to the gym, then they build on that. And so you want to be in a situation where if that first week in which you're experimenting with a goal didn't work very well, you can pivot and move forward.
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