Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson Maximizing Your New Year's Resolutions
Dec 31, 2018
Dr. Rick Hanson, a clinical psychologist and expert on resilience, joins to discuss maximizing New Year's resolutions. He emphasizes the importance of rituals in setting intentions and shares his yearly reflection process. The conversation covers focused goal-setting, warning against overwhelm by prioritizing few key themes. Rick highlights common goal-setting pitfalls and advocates for the power of small increments in achieving larger aims. He also delves into the significance of balancing goals across love, work, and play, and offers strategies to stick with resolutions and reshape your environment for success.
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Power Of Ritualic Markers
- Rituals like New Year’s resolutions create useful psychological markers for change.
- Rick Hanson says stepping out of the stream helps you zero in on what truly matters.
Pick A Short List Of Themes
- Take stock of the past year and pick a short list of one to five themes to focus on.
- Use visuals, sensations, or simple phrases to hold those themes throughout the year.
Warren Buffett's Brutal Focus Drill
- Forrest recounts Warren Buffett's method: list ambitions, rank them, then cut to the top five.
- Buffett frames the rest as distractions to avoid at all costs to protect focus.