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No New Year Resolutions - Episode 1

Happy new year! Its new year 2019. I hope y’all really enjoyed the holidays, cause its Christmas time followed by the new year..

Every new year comes up  with a special topic called a New year resolution. Everyone knows that. Now if you don't know what a new year resolution is, then it is nothing but a set of decisions that a person takes and makes sure that he keeps up with it throughout his life.

Have you made up your new year resolution yet? If yes , then let me know. Cause I’m coming up with reasons why you shouldn’t have a resolution and reasons why you should have them. And if you should have them then how do you make some and achieve them. As a bonus I will be sharing the 10 tactics to make the new year the new better you.

Hi there, I’m Tharun. You’re listening a being a pro, a one stop destination where you can learn what being a pro is like. 

Now talking about my personal experience about the new year resolutions, I’ve had a pretty bad record of keeping up with them , the reason not being the fact that I became worse, the reason was the I became better in the fields that I had not planned for in the beginning of the year.

Now I think this is one of the main reasons why you should not care about having a new year resolution. If you’re spending time charting up what you want to do, how much you want to do and then if you’re finding something better than what you had planned, then you would be definitely making a switch, which makes the planned resolutions a waste.

So who doesn’t need a new year resolution? 

  1. If you are determined enough and all you see is your Goals Goals Goals… and nothing else in your way.
  2. If you are surrounded by like minded and motivated people who will always inspire you and motivate you to move forward no matter what.

Now this is not always gonna happen. Everyone is neither a self-motivated person as a beginner nor would they have amazing people around them. And also When you’re training yourself to become a professional ,then there will be several options out there and you will take the most time deciding between them. So if you think that you’re gonna settle up with one technology, then chances are that due to say business needs, feature needs, client needs you may tend to deviate into a better or worst track.

10 Tactics to make 2019 a WOW.

  1. Exercise first thing every morning
  2. Read for 60 minutes  each day, whether its a book or a course or some new talent or language.
  3. Speak your truth even when its scary. I personally do this always, and trust me, each and every time it turns out to be Gold.
  4. Delete the dream stealers from your life. Quality matters not quantity. Have 3 good friends, more than enough.
  5. Be around art+nature often.
  6. Do a one page plan to make 2019 great.
  7. Write in a journal daily
  8. Do the things that terriffy you, in a positive way.
  9. Be the kindest person you know, you never know who will repay for your kindness. But at the same time dont give kindness with an expectation.
  10. Make personal mastery job number 1. Work towards self development and thats not the only thing that strengthens you , but also helping others will improve your personal skills.

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