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You have officially completed your first 3 days of 2025

*confetti blast*

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How did it go?

Was it productive?

Or did your New Year motivation run out already?

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The new year can be quite an anxiety inducing time,

You get excited about all the new things you want to pursue and accomplish.

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But most of the time you end up crawling back to the habits that hindered you from achieving your goals last year.

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The reality is,

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This cycle will kill your dreams,

happiness,

and quality of life if you allow it to.

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So lets start the year off right with some scientifically proven techniques to improve your goal setting,

and increase the likely hood of you achieving the goals you set!

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Set a Priority Goal

I'm not telling you to kill all of your other desires,

However having too many big goals swimming in your head at a time increases the likely hood that you will fail at all of them.

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We all have many desires,

but it is infinitely more effective to pour most of your focus into one for an extended period of time before moving on to the next goal.

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This does not mean neglect other areas of your life that can be improved upon,

It simply means one area,

your priority goal,

gets most of your attention for weeks to months, to years at a time.

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A good way to figure out what your priority goal is:

Grab your journal and write down everything you wish to achieve this year,

cross out the ones you wouldn't be too mad if you didn't accomplish,

and circle the one that would drive you crazy if you didn't.

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That's your priority goal.

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Make it Lofty

Funnily enough, the scientific data shows if your goal appears too easy or simple:

you're actually less likely to achieve it.

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Your brain doesn't get excited to figure out a goal unless some level of challenge is detected.

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Obviously don't set a goal that seems impossible either,

but it shouldn't seem easy.

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And honestly,

you should have doubts and a little bit of confusion on how you're gonna make it happen.

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That's what prompts the brain to get more excited,

motivated,

and creative to come up with ways to achieve it.

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What are the Specific Verbs/Actions You Must Do?

Too many times you write down a goal and just that goal.

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This is not optimal to how the brain works.

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The quality of your life is determined by your habits,

thus you will only achieve your lofty, priority goal if you understand what actions you must take day to day,

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week to week,

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month to month,

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to achieve it.

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So under your lofty priority goal,

Write down with as much detail as possible,

Everything you need to do and not do in a day (and how long you're going to do these specific things),

To achieve that goal in 3 months.

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Then follow those guide lines every single day without fail.

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These 3 simple techniques are scientifically proven to improve the likelihood of you achieving your goals.

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If you're interested in more techniques,

and the science behind why these things work,

​Check out this video by Dr. Andrew Huberman,

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You can also find links to the peer reviewed studies on his YouTube channel.

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Make it happen this year.

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Ciao,

Dio

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Dio Deji Oduwole

Creator of The Thriving Artists’ Newsletter

Musician, Music Producer, and Educator

​https://newsletter.thriving-artists.com/​

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