Brian Johnson reframes New Year's resolutions as daily recommitments, citing research showing most resolutions fail long-term. He introduces the Heroic app's Big Three protocol as a tool to recommit each morning to your best self in energy, work, and love.
January 1, 2023.
9% (of the 41% of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions).
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. New Year's Day is one of my favorite holidays. It's right up there with Thanksgiving. How awesome is a day of gratitude? Independence Day. Have you made your Declaration of Independence? Check out that plus one. And Easter. Remember, to have a resurrection, we must be willing to have a crucifixion. That's a Joseph Campbell idea. Check out that plus one now. I absolutely love taking the plastic wrap off my big old wall calendar and seeing a fresh 12 months ahead of me. And it's a thrill to set New Year's resolutions to finally show up as that next best version of ourselves. Can I get an amen? And did you know, according to some research done in 2016, only 9% of the 41% of Americans who make New Year's resolutions feel they were successful in keeping them for the non math majors in the crowd. That means that according to that research, 91% of people who set a New Year's resolution fail to keep it. Now, to be clear, it's not that setting resolutions in and of itself is a silly idea. Get this. Although only 46% of people who set resolutions consider themselves successful, after six months, only 4% of people who set similar goals without a resolution consider themselves successful. So get fired up. Set some inspiring resolutions for the New Year Hero. Who will you be in your energy, your work, and your love? How will you show up and go to the next level and become more heroically energized, more heroically productive, and more heroically connected than ever before? Seriously, how will you. And as nice and warm and fuzzy as New Year's resolutions are, as I like to say, what we really want to focus on are New Day's resolutions. We don't want to wait another 360 plus days for you to remember that today is the day to show up as the best version of yourself. Which is why, I repeat, we architected our Heroic app to help you recommit to being and then celebrate yourself being your best self today. Which begs the question, whether you use our Big Three protocol in our Heroic app or your own idiosyncratic approach. Did you recommit every morning to being your best self last year? Do you plan on doing that this year? Remember, today's the day to move from theory to practice to mastery. Today's day One always.
