The Anti-New Year’s Resolutions Policy

Episode show notes

Break the chains of the unrealistic New Year’s Resolution, and join us instead for the life-changing 23 Day Challenge…

The turn of the year signals a few things: buying a new calendar, health clubs packed to the rafters, Christmas cards on clearance sale, and the urge to set unrealistic goals for the year ahead.

Tune in this week to hear why Gary’s got beef with annual resolutions, the ways in which a performance mindset can infinitely improve them, and how you can get involved in our 23 Day Challenge.

Key takeaways from this episode:

Prioritise 3 things and be a completer-finisher

Focus on a performance mindset

Don’t be in the 80% - hold yourself accountable

Quotes & Highlights

“There's millions of podcasts in the world that people don't follow through on. People will listen to this podcast, and most people won't make it to part three of this podcast, but in part three, you know what? I've got the secret. The world is littered with people - myself included at times - that start and don't finish, they start and stop.” - 5:35 - Gary Gamp

“I'm not completely anti-new year’s resolutions, but I'm anti-stop-start, and I'm also anti-people that say they’re not having resolutions because they get disappointed. Yeah, of course you’ll be disappointed if you decide not to do it for that reason!” - 8:10 - Gary Gamp

“Move away from generic, unattainable goals like ‘I'm gonna get thin in 2022’. These are big, generic, not-that-exciting goals. They're not specific enough. It's a one off thing, that doesn't necessarily have a bit of an on-ramp. It doesn't give you a path.” - 11:25 - Gary Gamp

“I want you, every three months, to think of three specific things that will make you feel joyful, not things that make you go ‘Oh for God's sake’. That might be hard, because if it is something like wanting to lose weight, think about how it will make you joyful because of the result rather than the effort you've got to take to get there.” - 17:00 - Gary Gamp

“If you decide to swim across a river, and you only swim 95% of the way, what's going to happen? You'll drown. And that's it; my objective of this episode is to convince a small number of people to be a completer-finisher, and I'm trying to help you do it on a regular basis. You will reap the rewards and it makes you feel good and gives you confidence. It'll give you a sense of achievement, and most important of all, you'll get closer to what you want.” - 21:50 - Gary Gamp

“The goal for being an anti-New Year's Resolution policy is to change a habit. So my 23 Day Challenge, if you're up for it, I've got a little game for everyone to play, but it's going to be worth it.” - 25:45 - Gary Gamp

“If your furniture wasn't very good and you wanted to change it, you put all your furniture in the garage. You've ordered new furniture and it takes 6 weeks to come, right? So you're now in your house and you've got no furniture, what are you going to do? Bring it back out again. That's what people do every day. Unless you make something a habit, unless you replace the bad stuff with the good stuff, then nothing will change.” - 28:10 - Gary Gamp

Episode keywords

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Links & references

Gary Gamp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garygamp

George Clode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeclode