The Yes...And Podcast with Claire Darr · Claire Darr

Season 1. Episode 11. The Yes...And Podcast. New Years Resolutions in April!

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Claire breaks her planning into six categories: health, family, business, money, travel, and personal development.

1. The Yes...And Podcast with Claire Darr uses "New Years Resolutions in April!" as a reset episode about goal setting outside January. 2. Claire Darr is the host, a former corporate lawyer turned executive coach, and she frames the episode around her own planning practice. 3. The episode asks whether resolutions, intentions, goals, and dreams can be more useful in April than in January. 4. Claire says she felt pressure for years to finish resolutions on January 1st or January 2nd, then decided that pressure was not helping. 5. She describes waiting for quiet time after the kids return to school before writing goals, because January is often taken up with Christmas cleanup and family logistics. 6. Claire says she did her January planning in a journal, including a goal about celebrating New Year's Eve on a beach somewhere in 2025. 7. She explains that she sets monthly goals as well, using them to guide daily priorities when procrastination and perfectionism show up. 8. At the start of each month, she reviews what happened, checks off what got done, and treats unfinished goals as information rather than failure. 9. Claire uses a weight-loss example to show how a goal can be adjusted after a month of partial progress, illness, or changed priorities. 10. She says the same review process applies to relationships, money, business, and any other part of life where habits need to change. 11. Claire describes the feeling after her April 29 reset as new purpose, energy, clarity, and being "in tune." 12. She says the exercise began with asking, "What do I want?" and "What do I really want without limits?" 13. Claire encourages free writing without judgment and warns against stopping at thoughts like "I'm too old" or "there's not enough money." 14. She calls this her "Christmas list" approach, meaning a list of desires unconstrained by practical limits. 15. Claire includes a story about her daughter asking Santa for a dragon and insisting it should go back on her list this year. 16. She says the six categories she used were health and wellbeing, family and relationships, business, money, travel, and personal development. 17. Claire explains that business and money are separate because they have different purposes, even though they overlap. 18. She says the format is conversational and reflective, with repetition, personal examples, and direct advice to listeners. 19. People who like goal setting, journaling, and monthly planning systems would likely get the most from this episode. 20. People looking for a tightly edited interview or a topic unrelated to self-directed planning may skip it.

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An April reflection that treats resolutions as a monthly reset rather than a January deadline.

Claire turns an April 30 reflection into a plain argument for treating resolutions as a practice that can be revisited, not a deadline that only matters in January.

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You want a spring reset for a New Year's resolution that slipped and a calmer way to rework it.

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