192 - What If Your Best Year Isn't About More Discipline?

You are always being formed by a story. The question is whether you picked it.

Most of us chase a better year with more discipline. But habits shape what you love, and what you love shapes who you are and what you do. So real change has less to do with forcing new behavior and more to do with training what you want.

What if the year you're hoping for starts somewhere other than willpower?

This one is the framework. How people actually grow, why your affections need training as much as your mind, and why reading good books is one of the clearest ways to pick your story on purpose. Next we build the plan.

Resources:

Faouzia - You Don't Even Know Me 

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→ Your Next Listen: Ep. 159 — Rethinking Resolutions: Why we're focusing on habits not hustle.  — If the habits and loves piece is the part you want to sit in longer, 159 takes it into goal setting, where we swap crushing checklists for cultivating the kind of people we actually want to become.

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