Beyond Resolutions: Discover What You Want in 2025

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Why do New Year's resolutions usually fail by February? Forrest and Dr. Rick explore why traditional goal-setting falls short and offer a new approach to creating lasting change. They discuss how we can uncover our authentic wants and needs, move away from a punishment mindset, and use our new knowledge to find fulfillment. This episode will teach you how to get more out of any other New Year’s content you listen to. Rick and Forrest walk through a practical example of brain dumping “shoulds,” shifting the focus from means to ends, and working with internal resistance. They end the episode with a role-play focused on working with someone who wants to find a more meaningful relationship. Rick’s Yearly Program: Rick’s Foundations of Well-Being 2.0 is a year-long, science-backed journey through developing 12 key inner strengths like mindfulness, motivation, and confidence. It’s currently on sale, and if you like Being Well we think you’ll love it. Follow the link here and use coupon code beingwell20 for an additional 20% off: RickHanson.com/FWB Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:35: Fulfillment as a target, and other healthy ways of orienting to our goals 14:00: Cataloguing our “shoulds”, and being driven by a sense of enthusiasm 23:20: How Forrest has personally connected with his authentic wants 30:15: The “punishment part” 35:50: Practical techniques for identifying our values 41:45: A roleplay focused on how to find a meaningful relationship 51:25: Reviewing the roleplay 55:05: Knowing your why 59:50: Developing your personal psychology, and surrendering to the best within you 1:03:40: Recap I am writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Head to acorns.com/beingwell or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future Use promo code hanson at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual plan at incogni.com/hanson. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BEINGWELL at https://www.oneskin.co/ Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hanson. If you're new to the show,
0:11.1	thanks for listening today. And if you've listened before, welcome back. As we approach 2025,
0:16.8	we're about to face the annual flood of New Year, New You content.
0:21.9	All those articles and posts about how this is finally going to be the year, you learn that
0:26.1	new language, hit the gym regularly, meditate every morning, and transform your life.
0:33.2	Then February 1st rolls around, and for most people those good intentions are already
0:37.4	gathering dust. The initial motivation fades, and for most people those good intentions are already gathering dust.
0:38.7	The initial motivation fades and we find ourselves back in familiar patterns.
0:42.6	So what's really going on here? Why does this cycle keep repeating?
0:46.7	Much of the time, at least in my opinion, it's because we're operating from what we think we should be doing
0:52.1	rather than focusing on what would be authentically
0:55.2	fulfilling. And we often fall back on commonly recommended shoulds because it's genuinely
1:02.0	challenging to connect with and then act on our own wants and needs. And that's what we're
1:08.4	going to be exploring today, how to figure out what you really want and then use that understanding to inform your goals and needs. And that's what we're going to be exploring today, how to figure out what you really want,
1:11.7	and then use that understanding to inform your goals and plans in a way that maximizes your chances
1:18.0	of success. To help us do that, I'm joined as usual by clinical psychologist Rick Hanson. So, Dad,
1:23.7	how are you doing today? I'm good, and I really appreciate how you're approaching this forest in a way that is
1:29.5	soulful and essential and bottom up.
1:34.2	Basically three kind of factors in setting intentions that we actually stick with.
1:40.4	So before we get into it today, I do want to give a couple of quick reminders.
1:49.0	First of all, if you've been listening for a while and you haven't subscribed yet, it would be great if you subscribed to the show. That really does help us out.
1:51.0	Also, I want to take a moment to mention that if you're interested in applying maybe, hey, a little bit more structure to your growth process over the next year or so. A great way to do that could be
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