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Whatever your New Year’s resolutions may be, the fun part is imagining the perfect plan we’ll come up with to make it a reality. However, if you aren’t planning for potential foreseeable obstacles along the way, your resolution is just a fantasy. We want to believe it’ll just work out, and we don’t want to consider the challenges we might face, but this is a surefire way to find yourself back at square one at the end of next year.

LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS LISTEN ON GOOGLE PODCASTS LISTEN ON SPOTIFY DOWNLOAD THE TRANSCRIPT What You’ll Learn From This Episode: Why Vivian felt called to release a book about financial literacy. What being Rich AF means. Vivian’s experience working on Wall Street as a fresh undergrad. The red flags that

If you’re ready to break free from the cycle of choosing the same resolution year after year without making any progress, you’re in the right place. I’m showing you why shame-based resolutions don’t work, and instead, how to set your New Year’s resolution with positive motivation by aligning it with your chosen values.

New Year’s resolutions get a bad rap for valid reasons. While it’s rational to be skeptical of the value of setting goals and resolutions, I’m here this week to rescue their reputation. They can be motivated by willpower, hustle, and perfectionism, but that’s not all they are or can be, and I’m showing you why.

To turn the cultural ideas about the psychology of women on its head, I’m here this week with Elise Loehnen. Elise is the New York Times best-selling author of On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good and host of the Pulling the Thread podcast. She has been studying the dominance of our culture and how we can interrupt our programming to ultimately find balance and equity, and she’s here to share her insights with us.

Women especially drastically underestimate what we’re capable of achieving, having absorbed messages about knowing our own limitations, not wanting too much, or thinking too highly of ourselves. As a result, some of you don’t ever think about the future or have big dreams, while the rest of you identify as perfectionists who live in the future all the time. Either way, the concept of impossible goals can be incredibly powerful if applied correctly.