 The new year comes around. We say the same thing almost every year. I'm gonna lose weight I'm gonna save money gonna spend more time with friends and family and then usually by the end of the year There hasn't really been that much dramatic progress Well in this video, I'm gonna share what I think is the really obvious reason why certainly myself in the past have failed to make That progress consistently year-over-year and the number one thing you can do as a practice and a habit instead What's up guys Alex Hine here author of the book master the day now before we go any further I'm actually doing a live stream if you're interested in having your best year ever now to get the live stream the link to it I'm gonna be sending it to the people on the email list down there below that link for the free goal-setting worksheet It's not only gonna send you that free goal-setting worksheet for the new year You'll also get notified of that live stream, which is gonna be I think next weekend if this has come out then So keep your eyes peeled you can sign up right there in the description box Now to me the big realization I had about my own life and certainly for a lot of my coaching clients is The big fallacy which is that we think that life will just get better on its own You just keep plugging along you just keep working hard You just keep doing and magically you get there well to me This is as wrong as saying if you just work hard you're gonna become the best in the world You're gonna become the LeBron the Deepak Chopra the Mozart But nothing could be further than the truth in my book milk the pigeon I talked about this 20-something named Juan who is confused about where to go in his life and it was actually a humans of New York story that was featured and Basically what he said the gist of it was that he said in high school Everyone is like Juan you're gonna do amazing things when you figure out what you want to do You're gonna be like the best in the world and super successful and he said he spent so many years Trying to figure out what his thing was that now in his 30s almost 10 years had gone by and he hadn't done anything So he spent so much time Trying to find the thing instead of doing something or trying to improve or grow with what he had now Even if it wasn't the perfect situation even if it wasn't his passion So in my mind we think the year will get better because we're like affirming one day the year my life's gonna get better But it rarely happens like that So one of the things I've noticed helped me the most for me the solution in terms of a habit is you ask yourself What am I changing about today? So it's really difficult when you think okay? I'm single I'm getting a little chubby and I've maxed out credit cards to be like well I want the opposite so let's do that that makes it really difficult, but if you think instead I'm single what do I have to do differently today to make sure that's not the case a year from now Well, maybe I need to go to more events. Maybe I need to go volunteer Maybe I need to spend time going out each day to something social instead of holding up and watching Netflix Okay, I'm getting a little bit chubby. What do I have to change about today? Maybe I can change just one meal. Maybe I can just add one cup of vegetables to one of those meals throughout the day Maybe I'm gonna do a walk around the block at lunch before I eat instead of going to my favorite restaurant What needs to change today like this very day? That way you've turned this abstract idea or a huge goal into something practical and tangible Okay, I've got maxed out credit cards. What do I need to change today? To make sure it's not a reality a year from now, okay Maybe I need to start doing just daily tracking of what I'm spending me I'm maybe I'm gonna automatically save a hundred bucks a month Maybe I'm not gonna go out Friday Saturday and Sunday and drop $50 each night at the bar What do I need to change today to actually reach that goal and to me? This has completely transformed my life because again my observation about human nature Is that the people who go from idea about what they think they need to change to actually doing it as quickly as possible Those people without a doubt will be the most successful in terms of changing who they are to kind of build that incredible life So I hope that helps ask yourself What do I need to change about today regarding that domain of your life that you really want to improve and some really cool Stuff will happen now again Don't forget I'm doing that live stream on how to turn this year into the most epic year of your life All my best kept strategies case studies my own history and experience a lot of good stuff You have to click that link in the description It's on the it's gonna bring you to the email course my goal-setting email course You'll get that free worksheet and also I am relaunching my best year goal-setting course in mid to late January So if you want to be on that and be notified you have to be on that email list to hear about it Okay, so go check that out click that link subscribe and check out the last two videos right there and right there