Sprinting Straight Into a Wall

TOPIC: Those New Years When We're Not Actually Resolved.

This week, Merlin and Dan step back from resolutions and shooting yourself in the face with a wrist rocket to talk about what you're actually trying to change.

You're failing and feeling bad and eating a whole bag of cookies because you're resolving to be someone you're not (yet). What are you really trying to address? Are you being honest with yourself? Where do you actually start?

Find the real reasons, build a real infrastructure, and build yourself a real habit.

Links for this episode:

• Loyalty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• [SPONSOR] Squarespace
  (use offer code `NICE` for an additional 10% off)
• [SPONSOR] Frank & Oak
  (use code `BACKTOWORK10` for 10% off your first purchase)
• Ep. 21: "Dead Rubber Girl in My Closet" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  
• Thousandfold: Some podcast fan art. Love me some 5by5
  
• Make a Given Wish | You Look Nice Today
  
• 5by5 | The Comic Shack #23: Lying Cat is My Spirit Animal
  
• Amazon.com: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned (9781563899805): Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra: Books
  
• Brian K. Vaughan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Collectorz.com Connect: merlinmann: My Comics
  
• Skottie Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Culper Ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Robert Earl Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• A Man’s Belt Guide – What you need to know when buying a men’s belt
  
• Wu Tang-Triumph - YouTube
  
• Resolved: Stop Blaming the Pancake | 43 Folders
  
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life: Anne Lamott: 9780385480017: Amazon.com: Books
  
• 9 Tips on How to Do a Figure Four Leg Lock - wikiHow
  
• Intestinal fortitude - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  
• Backpack: Graphic Novelist 2.3
  

This week's episode for Back to Work is sponsored by Frank & Oak (use code "BACKTOWORK10" for 10% off your first purchase) and Squarespace (use offer code "NICE" for an additional 10% off).