 What I think the dangers and what are the hopes are for 2019 but I think the first thing and the most important thing I'm gonna say today and And this is so important on New Year's New Year's is New Year's is a great time to really forget about the politics and forget about forget about the world out there and You know that the political world economic world the Free speech the I don't know all the garbage that happens on a day-to-day basis and It really is a time To think about your own life. It's a time to really focus on your own values and your own life and and what's most important to you and What what do you want to what do you want to do with? With 2019 with this new year In advancing your goals in advancing your values in in achieving and attaining your values So I think this is a great period of time. I think the period between Christmas and New Year and maybe a few days after New Year to really commit yourself to thinking and to To really thinking about What's important? What am I gonna do in the next year to make my life more meaningful to make my life more substantial to Make my life the best life that it can be and and to really elevate my game My game the game of living How am I gonna? How am I gonna be better? Better pursue my values in my career How am I gonna better pursue my values my romantic values? How am I better gonna pursue my values? In in every dimension in every aspect in our lives now we all focus in on I want to lose five pounds I want to exercise more and and that's all good and but at the end of the day Exercise and weight and things like that. I Mean them important health is is crucial. It's important But they're much bigger more important things to focus on these should be the relatively easy stuff Yeah, go exercise Don't need a new year's resolution for that. You know lose some weight. Watch what you eat, you know diet, whatever These are not big issues. The big issues is What I do to make my romantic relationship better What do I do to establish a romantic relationship if I don't have one? How do I make my job the best job in the world? Well, how do I advance to attain the job that I really want from where I am today? These are the really big questions and then how do I make myself a Better person and here Let me just recommend that every year You spend you spend time with the virtue of selfishness iron man's Iron man's books iron man's essay the objectivist ethic because in the Virtue of selfishness in in that first essay the objectivist ethics is the guide is the map for how to improve your life how to make your life better how to live the best life that you can be the virtues that articulated the seven virtues that articulated in that book they need a lot of work you need to do a lot of work with them you need to chew them and absorb them and and and and analyze them and apply them and learn and Constantly improve on how do they apply to your life and specifically how they apply to your life And how they apply to your values But they are the bedrock They are what is going to make your life better in 2019 so what is What is instead of focusing on just the concretes This is a great time to go to the fundamentals To go to the moral principles That are going to apply to everything you do in your life including going on the treadmill and and dieting and you know Pursuing your romantic relationships and everything else so really Focusing on the objectives ethics focusing on the virtues and figuring out in detail How they apply to your life and how you can apply them to your life and how you can use them They are tools They are tools they're the most important crucial tools you have in your toolbox for making your life better What you can't affect is the life you live What you can't affect is the things that you do on a day-to-day basis what you can affect is Do you surround yourself with beauty on up? Do you make your life a happy prosperous successful? Thoughtful life on a that's what you can affect and that's what you should be focusing on on in this new year Focusing on your life focusing on being Selfish being a real egoist Really figuring out fully and comprehensively What's good for you? What's gonna make your life the best that it can be and It's work. It's work. It's not trivial. It's not easy to figure that out But again, the good best start in the world is to pick up and reread And certainly if you haven't read it before the objective is to ethics by Iron Man and then chew on it You can you can you can read? Terrorists miss viable values We're gonna have Terry Smith on the show in a couple of weeks. You can read You can read opal, but read the sections on ethics particularly opal and terrors where they really chew on the ethics and make yourself better and Then apply it figure out how to apply it to every aspect and every part of Your life Right and and we'll try to help you here in a sense that I'll go back and start doing more episodes on the virtues I know I I've done some but I'll do more repeat some. I know this is kind of stuff. That's good to Chew on and chew on and repeat and chew on Constantly because it's so easy to get away from it