Every New Year calls for resolutions—a tradition passed down from ancient Romans, Babylonians and Medieval knights. No one knows exactly how their success rates fared but if they’re anything like modern Westerners—where our gym membership dues are paid but we stop showing up— then we may simply be following the footsteps of failure OR, to look at it with a business lens, we may just be off in our strategizing. So what might help us be more successful? For answers, we can look at a report published by the University of Scranton where researchers tracked the self-change efforts of 213 New Year’s resolution-makers—ranging from 16 to 75 in age—over a two-year period. They found that over three-quarters of the testers kept their pledges only for the first week and then rates steadily went down; two years later, only 19% kept the resolution.  So what were the resolutions of the 19%? Realistic goals broken down into smaller chunks like ‘clean out the garage by May’ or —like my own resolution—contact three people in my network a day.

Today, I’ve had two excellent guests to help you stick to your goals, whether they be for the New Year or not. Psychotherapist Amy Morin, author of the ’13 Things Mentally Strong  People/Parents/Women Don’t Do’ series, and  Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof Coffee and Author of Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life.’

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