Welcome to this New Year edition of The Business Oddcast! This week we’re pulling apart the whole “New Year, New You” circus and asking what resolutions actually look like when you’re neurodivergent.

We talk perfectionism, shame spirals, forgotten vitamin tubs, and why “consistency” is often just a neurotypical fantasy.

We dig into energy budgets, dopamine-fuelled overcommitting, and the difference between the version of you who signs up for everything… and the version who actually has to do it. We explore minimum viable progress, anti-resolutions (what you’ll stop doing), and why prioritising rest isn’t laziness – it’s survival.

If traditional goal-setting has ever left you burnt out, bored, or hiding in the car for a nap, this episode is your permission slip to design a year that works with your brain, not against it.

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00:00:00 - Introduction. 00:00:41 - TOPIC OF THE WEEK - New Year's Resolutions & Goal Setting 2026. 00:01:57 - Why Hannah loves/hates New Year & the tyrrany of resolutions. 00:03:35 - Stuart & positives of sharing your resolutions, and PDA. 00:04:57 - Hannah's response to expecations of New Year's Resolutions. 00:06:25 - Internalised shame based logic and perfectionism. 00:07:00 - Inverting the resolutions, ignoring pessimism and optimism. 00:09:28 - Hannah - crazy tangent. 00:10:11 - The flaw in New Year's resolutions - consistency... 00:11:05 - Resolutions, hustle culture and demand for change! 00:13:00 - Health and wellbeing resolutions, Stu's approach. 00:13:54 - Why "know thyself" should be your goal. 00:14:43 - The dopamine hit of ticking something off a list. 00:15:55 - Exploring how to make resolutions work for NDs. 00:16:24 - TOP TIP - baby steps; what resources do you have, inc. energy? 00:19:50 - Stuart's curmudgeonly persona. 00:20:50 - When you do stuff matters as much as commiting to do it. 00:22:45 - Setting goals with undefined outcomes, may not work for NDs. 00:24:34 - Late diagnosed ND's need a "brain" user manual . 00:26:24 - The shame of the New Year's resolution failure. 00:28:39 - "I didn't fail the plan, the plan wasn't designed for me". 00:31:20 - "If you want it, just ask the universe", oh perleeze... 00:32:51 - TANGENT- Total immersion and creating fictional realities. 00:34:24 - Suckling on the teat of dopamine... 00:35:01 - The solution? A resolution revolution Flip the script! 00:36:01 - The ONLY resolution the neurodiverse need to make. 00:39:20 - MVP - Minimum Viable Progress... our podcast goals. 00:42:10 - We're not promising a Ted Talk - and the one goal YOU Need... 00:42:50 - Summary and round up 00:43:33 - Hannah's final thought... 00:45:56 - Hannah's final final thought... 00:46:30 - LENGTH

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