 Let's be real guys, people don't change. And if this new year, you are just setting goals for the year, then chances are you're gonna be the same at the next year. Well, in this video, I thought I'd share why I think New Year's resolutions are total bullshit. What's up you guys, Alex Hine here over at Modern Health Monk, author of the health book, Master the Day, which by the way, you should read if you have New Year's resolutions and you don't wanna be stuck doing the same thing every year. Before we jump in, put together a free guide. Actually it's a challenge. It's a free seven day self-growth challenge. It's the first link right below the video. You're gonna get a couple emails that will help you figure out one new personal growth habit to improve your life. So, check it out. When I first got into improving my life, I was that annoying little tool that was telling his friends how he's gonna change his life. I'm gonna get fit this year. I'm gonna finally get in a relationship this year. I'm gonna gain 20 pounds of muscle and add $20,000 to my salary. I'm gonna start the business that I always wanted to start. I'm gonna write the book at that time and Master the Day that I'd wanted to write. I'm gonna take a vacation to Thailand for two weeks. And in general, I was that annoying, snoddy little kid that was bragging about all the things that he was going to do. Realistically, I think that's most of us, right? We have good intentions. We want to improve our life. And we really do mean it when we say, I'm going to do this. But the reality is that doing is always a lot easier than saying that you're going to be doing something. So the thing is, for most of us, we take one day a year to reflect on what worked and what didn't work. So last year, I said that I was gonna go get a raise at my job and I didn't. And it turns out, I didn't really do much to get that raise at my job after January 20th. So if I spend one day a year reflecting on my life, what could I do to get that raise? What skills do I have to acquire? Do I have to talk to another higher up? Do I maybe need to apply for another job? Do I need to stay later at work? What is it? If I don't even spend more than one day a year reflecting on how I have to change or improve to improve my life, chances are that dream life is not gonna happen. But think about the difference of reflecting one day a year around the new year versus every night, just looking at your goals and what's worked and what's not worked to reach those goals. You literally have 365 times the amount of reflection and strategy and effort put in to improve your life. But let's be real, if you don't change now, you never will. That's why your friend who says they're gonna get a new job or they're gonna move to New York or they're gonna take that trip or they're gonna become an au pair in Spain. They say that for years. Some people say that their whole lives that they're gonna move to New York or LA or they're gonna try acting or they've always wanted to write a book or a memoir or they wanted to just try that career so badly. That's why most people will spend their whole lives thinking that one day they'll become that future person when in reality you have to become your future self now. Change happens in a day, not a year. If you wanna become, let's say, the best person on your soccer team in high school, what is more likely to make that happen? You have a goal and you look at that goal on the wall every day it says become the best soccer player or you have a list of daily rituals and habits you have to do to become that best soccer player. You have athletic training like running, you have dribbling drills, you have shooting drills, you meet with your coach, you review the tapes, maybe even hire people that are trainers in your school or in your gym or whatever your organization is. What is more likely to produce that outcome? I wanna be the best soccer player or I have five specific skills that I have to drill and they're on my calendar every single morning, dribbling, shooting, athletic training. Obviously the one with the specific habits is the one that's gonna change your life because you have mastered the day in terms of being clear about what daily actions do I have to do to reach that one day high in the sky goal. What if you wanna be a successful YouTuber or a successful entrepreneur? Having like one million followers on your goal board means nothing in terms of getting them. Compare that to every day I'm gonna shoot a video, every day I'm gonna study the YouTube game for an hour, every day I'm gonna study video production, video editing, strategy, storytelling, being a good presenter. So now let's say your goal was to get a million followers. Having that on a piece of paper behind your desk means nothing, it's not correlated at all with achieving that. But if you look at every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I have three hours booked off and each hour is dedicated to a specific skill set that is gonna produce videos that will get better and better. You are a hell of a lot more likely to reach that goal of the million followers. So change happens in a day. It doesn't happen in a year. Now I wanna leave you with my secret weapon for achieving your goals. My secret weapon is that if you want to achieve things in life or change any part of your life, write down what you want on a piece of paper and just look at it every single day. So if you want to lose 20 pounds, save half a hundred dollars a month and get into grad school, write down those goals on a piece of paper and look at them as many times possible as you can in one day. And what's gonna happen is the more you look at that, the more you're gonna think about it. And the more you think about it, the more you're going to take actions toward it. And the more you take actions toward it, the more likely they are to actually happen. To me, this is like the real authentic manifesting that everyone talks about is looking at your goals every day and going over them repeatedly over and over and over again. So I think New Year's resolutions are total bullshit because rather than changing your life one day a year, if you just look at those goals every single night, you're gonna change your life 365 times in a year. And think about the other person that's gonna be on the other side of that year. It's gonna be totally different. All right guys, my two cents, check out the free seven day self growth challenge and I'll see you soon.