The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life.

For many of us, the New Year is a fresh start, an opportunity to get a new outlook on life. This week on The Living Experiment, we talk about the nature of the New Year experience, from the "New You!" media frenzy to the tradition of setting goals and resolutions, to the value of investigating the motivation behind those desires. We share our favorite approaches for pursuing change in our own lives, and explore expert theories about why your goals may be eluding you. "New Year" Episode Highlights The New Year holiday as the caboose on the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas marketing train (2:10) Arguments against January 1 as a hard date for making big changes (4:00) Pilar's Goal Flower model for setting and achieving goals (7:10) Accomplishing less instead of more (10:30) Why uncovering the belief systems that are holding you back may be more effective than simply addressing surface problems like excess weight, disorganization, and debt (12:15) Dallas's approach to goal setting (and the holidays) (13:30) Making reso