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025: New Year’s Resolutions

Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Today we discuss the kinds of resolutions we make, and discuss tips on how to keep them. Learn what a SMART goal is, and learn the idioms and interesting vocabulary words we use when speaking: ‘to be on to something’, ‘flip on its head’, ‘just in the nick of time’, ‘down to the wire’, ‘went by the wayside’, and more!

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Show Notes:

  • David makes them almost every year (he doesn’t keep them)
  • Goals for more consistency on things we already do
  • What if we looked at WHY we haven’t achieved what we want to achieve and problem solve that to keep our resolutions?
  • Phrase ‘to be on to something’
  • SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely
  • What is an acronym?
  • Making an end-of-year goal
  • Rachel’s end-of-year-goal is to take piano lessons
  • What does ‘flip on its head’ mean?
  • ‘Just in the nick of time’, ‘down to the wire’, when time ‘runs out’
  • Music lessons
  • Eliot’s resolution to run a half marathon
  • The phrase ‘went by the wayside’
  • Broad Street Run in Philadelphia
  • What is a ‘bib’?
  • Rachel’s resolution is to WATCH a marathon (not run one!)
  • Rachel’s cousin’s family’s New Year’s resolutions (the splits!)
  • What is a Sharpie?
  • What is the fate of the podcast? We won’t be recording more in January, and we’re not sure if/when we’ll record again!
  • Wishing you the best in 2018!

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