Episode 20Dec 22, 2025· 4:36
Stop Waiting for January 1st to Change Your Life | Why 'New Year, New Me' Fails Every Time
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"I'll start working out in January" is the lie you tell yourself every year. And every February, you're back where you started. This episode exposes why waiting for the "perfect time" guarantees failure…and what to do instead.
I break down the psychology behind New Year's resolutions, why the arbitrary January 1st start date sets you up for disappointment, and why starting NOW (even imperfectly) beats waiting for…
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Full transcript
00:08
What's up, you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here.
00:09
Welcome to More Movement, Please, the podcast
00:11
where I hope to inspire you to move your body
00:13
more by sharing my story and occasionally the
00:16
stories of others. Let's get into it. Today,
00:18
what I want to talk about is this new year, new
00:21
me. I'm not subscribing to it and I don't think
00:25
you should either. So here's the thing. I understand
00:29
that at the beginning of every new year. We all
00:32
make these lofty goals and these big plans of
00:35
how we're going to change our lives. We're going
00:36
to overhaul our lives and we're going to make
00:39
this year the best year yet. But why do we wait
00:42
to the new year? Why is it that whenever we're
00:44
thinking about fitness and, you know, losing
00:47
weight and, you know, improving our lives that
00:50
we wait until later? I want you to do it today.
00:55
I don't care whether you're listening to this,
00:58
you know, in the middle of December. or if you're
01:01
listening to it on New Year's Day, or maybe you're
01:04
listening to this in the dead of summer, I think
01:09
that if you want to change your life, you should
01:11
start today. Don't wait for a new year. Don't
01:17
wait for a new hour. If you want to make a lifestyle
01:22
change, what are you waiting for? Like, really?
01:25
Because every second that you wait, you're giving
01:28
yourself an excuse. to not start. Let's say you
01:32
say to yourself, in the new year, I'm going to
01:35
make my life better. I'm going to lose weight.
01:38
I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to do all
01:40
the things. And then the new year's comes and
01:42
something happens. Maybe you lose a pet or you
01:46
lose a loved one or you lose your job or something
01:51
happens that just completely wrecks your plans
01:54
to finally get in shape. Does that mean you have
01:58
to wait until the next year? To start? I don't
02:01
think it should. I think that what we should
02:03
do is treat every single day as a new day, a
02:06
new opportunity to start. So that's what I want
02:10
you to do. I want you to just think about this
02:12
as not waiting for some day in the future, not
02:18
waiting for some arbitrary moment where you're
02:23
finally going to change things. Because like
02:26
I said, Every minute that you wait, every day
02:29
that you wait is another day that you're not
02:32
taking care of yourself, that you're not improving
02:34
your life. So what are you waiting for? It just
02:37
so happened that whenever I started getting serious
02:40
on July 14th, 2025, it just happened to be a
02:44
month till my birthday. It wasn't a deliberate
02:47
choice. It wasn't one of those moments where
02:49
I was like, oh, I'm going to do this because,
02:51
you know, it's this many days to my birthday.
02:54
Sure, it made for a fun headline like, oh, month
02:56
to my birthday and I'm doing 100 days of fitness.
02:58
Yeah, that was fun, but it wasn't intentional.
03:01
What was intentional is I'm going to make the
03:04
change today, right now, I'm getting serious.
03:08
And that's what I want you to do too. I don't,
03:10
like I said, I don't care what day it is right
03:12
now. I don't care what hour it is right now.
03:14
If you want to start losing weight, if you want
03:17
to start having a healthier lifestyle, start
03:19
right now. Today, at some point, start moving
03:23
your body more. Maybe instead of reaching for
03:25
soda all the time, you're grabbing water. Instead
03:28
of reaching for candy, you're reaching for something
03:32
healthier. Just simple changes. That's the big
03:35
thing that I'm all about is making simple, consistent
03:37
lifestyle changes to overhaul your entire life.
03:41
You don't have to do it overnight. You don't
03:43
have to go crazy with this. I want you to do
03:46
something you can actually commit to. So that's
03:48
what I'm talking about is small changes. Don't
03:50
do new year, new me. Do I'm changing my life
03:54
and I'm doing it one step at a time because I
03:57
am committed. I am serious. I mean it. And this
04:00
is what I want for you. Onwards and upwards,
04:03
my friends. Have you worked out today?
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