In this episode, I share a counterintuitive realization I had after noticing my own behaviour around Black Friday—and how it completely changed the way I think about New Year’s resolutions, procrastination, and consistency.
Book mentioned in the video: Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:16 The Black Friday Story
02:37 How Black Friday is similar to New Year's Resolutions
04:46 My best decision of last year
05:53 New Year's resolutions never worked for me in the past
06:12 New Year - Old Me
07:42 Picking the hardest time to start
09:16 The most consistent year
10:39 Not needing a perfect start point
11:43 The parenting analogy
12:42 What are we teaching our brain?
13:55 Waiting can be great
15:38 What's so magical about January 1?
16:50 Practicing the new lesson daily
17:09 My favourite book about procrastination
20:48 My proposal