Academic Medicine Open Forum

Or “Why I’m spending 2023 practicing for my 2024 New Year’s Resolution”

Thank you, Mark Canada and Christina Downey at Indiana University, for taking the pressure off the New Year’s resolution-setting business for me. I just came across their recommendation to consider a better approach: make an “old year’s resolution.” Instead of waiting until January to start trying to change your life, they recommend doing a dry run before the New Year begins. A rehearsal. A practice run.

Canada and Downey say this combines insights from psychologists and “America’s first self-improvement guru, Benjamin Franklin” who was known for taking on big projects, embracing failure as a learning opportunity, and for a lifelong quest to improve his moral character.

Will you join me in a committing to a 2023 practice run for a 2024 New Year’s resolution?

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Nicole Buckley
Communications Strategist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Thanks for sharing this new approach. I'm definitely trying to reframe my thinking of "having to wait" for January 1 to make changes. If not now, when? And to add one more cliche phrase, "there's no time like the present!"

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Stephanie Weiner
Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-24-2023 07:21:33 AM
From: Nicole Buckley
Subject: Tip Tuesday: Old Year's Resolution

Or "Why I'm spending 2023 practicing for my 2024 New Year's Resolution"

Thank you, Mark Canada and Christina Downey at Indiana University, for taking the pressure off the New Year's resolution-setting business for me. I just came across their recommendation to consider a better approach: make an "old year's resolution." Instead of waiting until January to start trying to change your life, they recommend doing a dry run before the New Year begins. A rehearsal. A practice run.

Canada and Downey say this combines insights from psychologists and "America's first self-improvement guru, Benjamin Franklin" who was known for taking on big projects, embracing failure as a learning opportunity, and for a lifelong quest to improve his moral character.

Will you join me in a committing to a 2023 practice run for a 2024 New Year's resolution?

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Nicole Buckley
Communications Strategist
Association of American Medical Colleges
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