In front of me today, I have a document. A document that contains two lists. To be more specific,

two lists of New Year's resolutions, one from 2023 and one from 2024. I have my last two years of New Year's resolutions in front of me today,

and I'm going to react to them with you. Did I accomplish my New Year's resolutions? Did I

fail miserably? Did I fall somewhere in between? What can we learn from the past two years of my New Year's resolutions?

Now in hindsight, what can we learn about the concept of New Year's resolutions? What can we

learn about myself? What can we learn about the world? Today we're going to be looking at my New Year's resolutions for the past two years,

reacting to them, and seeing what we discover along the way, okay? Because I can almost guarantee

we will discover at least something sort of interesting. Before we begin, I should clarify my stance on New Year's resolutions

because the conversation around New Year's resolutions every year tends to be a bit polarizing.

A lot of people think New Year's resolutions are pointless. Making a bunch of goals at once is

overwhelming for the average person and nothing ends up coming of it except for disappointment.

Other people believe that it's incredibly helpful and that we need a reset every once in a while.

And the new year is a great time for that. It's a day on the calendar that holds a lot of weight

because it is the sign of a new year,

even for the hardest working person who is the most wrapped up in the daily minutia of

their life and work has to stop on New Year's and say, okay, we're opening a new page of our book.

This is a new chapter. And there's something about that

that can help even the most rigorously busy person reset and stop for a second and think about

what changes should be made in their lives. So I'm of the belief that we should all do

what works for us. I think New Year's resolutions are neither good nor bad. I used to kind of hate them.

I used to be a hater. I'm not anymore. I see the value in it. And for the last two years,

I was like, you know, let me just give it a try. And I will say, I wrote these resolutions in the

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