#389 Do New Year's resolutions work?
Do New Year's resolutions work?
Scientific findings at the turn of the year
The end of the year is approaching.
It is often used to make resolutions for the coming year. Finally, stop smoking, eat healthier, and go to the gym. As varied as the wishes are, the moments in which we recognise that the resolutions were no longer pursued, not implemented or completely abandoned after a more or less long period of time are often as extensive as we know from our own experience. We are certainly also familiar with successful cases of such resolutions. Therefore, The question arises: are there any scientifically proven results on New Year's resolutions and their success rate?
This article will give you the answer.
Foundation
There are a few aspects to consider beforehand to avoid frustration and disappointment. You need the physiological prerequisites to achieve your goals. If you want to eat healthily, you usually have to invest more money in food. If this money is not available, the goal cannot be achieved. It is also important to check that your own environment is safe so that toxic environmental variables do not make it impossible to achieve your goal. Your social environment can also stand in the way of achieving your goal, so it is essential to check this carefully. Individual factors, preferences and wishes, and self-realisation must be considered. Based on the scientific findings of Maslow and Herzberg and your own inner mission, it is therefore important to ensure in advance that the basic requirements for goals and their achievement are met.
Science
Professor John C. Norcross dealt with New Year's resolutions on a scientific basis. In the publication 'Success Predictors, Change Processes, and Self-Reported Outcomes of New Year's Resolvers and Nonresolvers', he analysed whether the goals were achieved. It is already known that there is evidence of a so-called fresh start effect. For certain rare events, such a fresh start can lead to a temporary boost in motivation. Phrases such as 'New Year, New Me' can be heard frequently in English-speaking countries yearly. The goals must then be set clearly and specifically, and the ways to achieve them must also be known in detail. Ambitious realism is recommended. However, the study's scientific results do not show overly optimistic results about New Year's resolutions. After just six months, only 46% of respondents were still working on their New Year's resolutions. The majority had already stopped following them. As the respondents were interviewed in person, it can be assumed that the statement about working on goals is quite vague and not always honest. The study did not include a neutral review of the statements.
Therefore, New Year's resolutions are not recommended from a scientific point of view. This week's podcast has more details about the study, tips for implementation, and more; see the links below.
Implementation
If you are one of the minority who are particularly persistent in working towards your goals, you can try this at any time. Pay particular attention to self-control, social support and possible external help. If you are self-reflective, you will know in which areas your self-control is more or less well-established. Choose your goals accordingly. Your environment can help you achieve your goals but also hinder you. Not everyone around you will like it if you suddenly build a career through part-time training. Social groups often tend to penalise breaking out of the group. After all, some people don't even want to be shown how much would be possible if they were more committed or made more effort. Therefore, check your environment thoroughly in advance. External help can be useful for any goal. Always make sure that the people providing help have their own evidence of real implementation and scientific foundation. If there is a good personal fit between you and the person providing help, all the better. However, any external help should primarily focus on self-empowerment. Making yourself dependent on external help is neither sensible nor expedient. Professionals, especially those with a professional background, know this principle.
Conclusion: New Year's resolutions are of limited use. If you want to change something, why should you wait until an arbitrary date? Go for it.
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You can also find the podcast transcript below.
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Podcast Transcript
Niels Brabandt
When you're listening right now, I have to say thank you, especially when you listen on the day where this podcast gets published. Because it's December 25th, and especially in the English speaking world, it is not common to listen to podcast on these days. If you listen later, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas time if you are, doing Christmas or had a nice festive season, happy holidays, or just some nice day to relax. If you had to work, thank you very much for your service to communities and to people who, need need your services on these days. However, the main point here is many people since October sent me emails and asked me because as you know, this podcast is based on science proof and evidence. And in the beginning of October, it started that people send me emails and said, well, we know the end of the year is approaching. Is there scientific evidence about New Year's resolutions?
And I don't mean an opinion. Is there scientific have there been any scientific studies conducted on New Year's resolutions? So I can tell you during the last weeks, I got very deep into research on New Year's resolutions because believe it or not, there is scientific research on the effectiveness and efficiency of New Year's resolution because we all know well, when you listen to this on the publishing days, 25th December 2020 5. And, Paul, you had a nice rest, and now you think, well, the New Year is approaching. How do we deal with that? Some people say I do a New Year's resolution. Some people say I don't.
Some people say they work. Some people say they don't. And, of course, we all know the scientific, the, the anecdotal evidence that we have from our own experience that people have new year's resolution, that we all know the new year's resolutions that failed. For example, people say that with my last cigarette, I will stop smoking. Or people say I go to the gym, the gyms will be full as usual beginning of every year, and usually they become a bit more empty reasonably quickly afterwards. So these new year's resolutions, is this actually a thing that makes sense, or should we probably avoid them? And, of course, first, we have to look into certain substantial evidence in the very beginning.
When you say I want to change something, the very first question is you have to ask why do you want to do that. And there are certain aspects, 5 in total in the very beginning that you have to check for. The very first aspect is the physiological aspect. I give you very, very simple aspect. When you say let's take the example of go to the gym. When you say, I want to go to the gym, then someone probably will give you a training plan. However, we all know that when you do sports and you want to have a certain result, many of these results are either building up muscle, losing weight, usually both, often focus on I want to look better, I want to look in a certain way.
One part of that usually is that you need to eat healthier because we all know that the junk food is available for pennies somewhere out there. And especially in Central Europe, food is rather cheap. When you now listen from the US or from the UK, that doesn't apply to you. Very sorry. However, in every single country, it is the case that junk food is always cheaper than healthy food. So from a physiological point of view, when you have the wish to eat healthier, but you don't have the means to do that when you say I can't afford healthier food, there is a barrier we need to talk about first. It doesn't it doesn't make any sense to start when you know from the very beginning, I can't fulfill the mission.
Of course, you can make things better just by saying I avoid junk food. That's better than eating junk food. Okay? Good start. And then you probably eat bread or anything else, which can be healthier. Doesn't necessarily need to be depending on the bread. However, physiological barriers are just there.
You have to talk about them and address them very quickly, including your safety and security as well. When you, for example, have an unsafe environment, when you face an environment in which you live which has domestic violence or you have parents which have issues with substance abuse, that is also part of when you reach for goals. Often your circumstances can be either very supportive or very problematic. So you have to check for your safety and security first because you will not reach any goal when you're on unsafe conditions. Of course, you need a social circumstance you need social circumstance which support you. You need to have an individual situation which is settled and safe that you do something which you like and often self fulfillment should be what you at least partially see either in your private life or your job life preferably both that tremendously helps when you want to achieve goals. If you now say out of these 5 points, I already have 0 out of 5, work on that before.
Because, otherwise, you will very quickly start something and very quickly see that it's not working, and that's incredibly frustrating. The next step you have to look for is the so called in a mission. Does what you do align with your true in a mission? I give you a very simple example. Often and I stick with the example of going to the gym. Often people say, well, I want to go to the gym because I want to look better. And when then someone says, well, it's great that you do it for yourself.
You just feel better for yourself and Paul did help. And then they say, no. No. No. It's blah blah blah. I just when I want to go out, I want to meet more people. I want to get positive feedback from others. And here, massive warning, not by me, but by Doctor.
Keltner, who's one of the most well known professors, University of California, Berkeley, one of the leading professors we have worldwide who, and I quote, said that external validation is the way to unhappiness. When you rely on external validation constantly, first you need to work harder and harder and harder to get that, however, there will be the point where you won't get it because biology also works for you. When you say I want to look in a certain way, here are the news, you will age if you want it or not. And when you then say well I can go to the gym first and then there's Botox and then there's plastic surgery and all that. When you do it for yourself, fine. However, when you do it to get external validation it is a dangerous dangerous path you're on. So be sure that your inner mission really aligns with what you do.
I give you very simple example what frequently happens is circle of friends, 5 people. 3 people say, hey from January 1st I go to the gym and the other 2 join because the other the other 2 only join because the other 3 say I sign up for the gym. Very quickly these 2 will drop out because it is not aligned with their in a mission, they just do it because others do it. And of course, we all know that one example that went to press and TV that was not motivated at all got there by coincidence and now is a supermodel. Probably 1 person out of a 1000000 most likely even less because I looked for these examples and I didn't find any but I think they exist somewhere. However, in general, we want to have generally scientific evidence here. In general, the external validation is the path to unhappiness.
And of course, what you need on top of the by the way, the 5 motivational aspect we have in the beginning when you say, oh, it sounds a bit like muscle, muscle is more motivational pyramid, the, pyramid of needs. Yes. That that's the one. Exactly. V and admission, very important. You find that in my scientific publications. And then, of course, you need circumstances according to Hertzberg, also, scientists working on motivation.
You have hygiene factors. For example, good payment, good job being be being offered reasonable work. And then there are also motivational factors that you have challenging work, interesting work, ways to develop yourself. Do you have these factors? Because if not, work on these factors first before you set some goal where from the beginning, it is very obvious that you can't achieve it. Probably, you know these people who say, well, I'm gonna start my own business with 50 quid, and then, of course, you know that one person that made it with 50 quid. But you also you also have to look at the other 999,000 people, 999,000 people who didn't make it.
Always go by scientific evidence. Just hoping for the coincidental moment is usually not a good plan. And now, of course, the main point, what about science? Is there any science on New Year's resolution? And yes, there is. Professor John c Norcross actually published scientific evidence exactly and specifically for New Year's resolutions. And there is one aspect here that we hear the good news before we get to some other news.
Good news is that there's something we just call the fresh start effect. When you have certain moments that doesn't happen that do not happen very often then there is a fresh start effect where people say I will now change because there's a significant event which I take as a reason. There is a certain fresh start effect, however, that effect also the the success of having a resolution here is based on the fact as I mentioned before. So you can have as many fresh starts as you want. And we all know the people who on January 1st say, hey, new year, new me. That's the statement that you very often hear. When you have that fresh start effect, but not the circumstances you need, you will not succeed.
And I know this is not a motivational talk you probably want to hear at the end of the year. I just want to prevent you from having a massive frustration mid of January, and probably some people are listening who had that for the last 10 years in a row. And I can tell you most likely it is not your fault because you didn't know the scientific evidence and now you know what to work on in the first place. So the fresh start effect only works by the way because when people say, hey, something new something new starts. I could say every new week is a fresh start effect. Well, the fresh start effect only works when things don't happen too frequently. Otherwise, you could say the beginning of every new minute is a fresh start, and that's only something that motivational speakers would say.
The fresh start effect works only with events that rarely happen, birthdays, marriages, New Year's resolutions also. And when you now have very clear and specific goals, you also need to know the path to that goal. So for example, when you say, hey. I go to the gym, that is usually not specific enough. When you say, hey. I go to the gym. I want to build up some muscle.
I want to lose weight, and I will build up muscle with a personal trainer that helps me. I will get professional introductions to all the machinery they have to that, all the exercise that I need to know. I will get professional guidance. I go to the courses on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 PM. So very, very specific to be on the path that is more likely the way how you can succeed. You need something which is called ambitious realism. You know how to put things in place.
When you say, hey. I want to start my business. I want to get into consultancy and consult people on business things. Something I hear every single year. And I'm already looking forward to receiving the email for people telling me, oh, I'm a trainer, speaker, coach now as well because then I can have more control about over my time so so I can make more money and work less. Yeah. If you ignore client's wishes, that might be the case.
Good luck with that. Or people who tell me, oh, it's going to be passive income by video courses only. Yeah. A totally not competitive market where not massive corporations are in you're running against. So this ambitious realism needs to be more specific than, oh I do something and suddenly the magic money trees grows in my backyard. The study by the way I'm referring to here is called Aught Lang Syne, success predictors change processes and self reported outcomes of New Year's resolvers and non resolvers. And the result of that study is, and that's of course the main point here, buckle up, and I quote, the result of that study is, they checked people doing New Year's resolutions, 46% of the people who had New Year's resolutions were still working on them 6 months later.
And now some people might say, that's that's not too promising, isn't it? It's a bit it's less than 50%. So yeah. So first first, we have to look into what do the numbers say. 46% says statistically, it is already after 6 months with only the first look and I give you the second look in a minute. The first look already tells you 46% means it is more likely that New Year's resolutions fail than they succeeding. So statistics already are against you and usually, scientific stat you you, of course, can say, hey, I'm in the 46%.
That's what probably everyone says that starts in New Year's resolution. However, the second look on here is in the title of the study, and scientists know that and this is why this is a very honest study because it puts it right in the title. It says self reported outcomes. This is not neutral evidence by a third party. This is not a blind study proving x y z if it has factually happened. When people get asked, hey, you had a new year's resolution, are you still working on it or did you actually achieve it? Some people know when you get asked personally, and, of course, here you have to ask personally.
Anonymous surveys, of course, could have been done as well, but the result usually on self reported items is pretty much the same. People just start to lie. When people say, hey, I have this New Year's resolution. I have took part in this study, and now they asked me if I'm still working on it. I mean, you know, told them I I will stop smoking, but I basically start smoking again on January 8th when the first day of business re began. Then, of course, people often start to like, not everyone, but many people. So when see, 46% is the number, it already says it's more likely to fail than to succeed.
When you when you when you know data, when you know scientific studies, and when you know self reported scientific studies, you know that the realistic number that could be proven. So when you do the same study again, however, then, of course, people need to be, need to be under surveillance for the whole time, which is, of course, a very, very budget intensive study then for New Year's resolutions, then you need to take if they really do it, if they follow-up, probably, you will end with less than half of that 46%, in my opinion, probably with a 5th of that. So there is still a small number of people following, but when someone says after 6 months they are still working on it, it means they haven't succeeded yet. So when when people say, yeah. I'm working on it, it doesn't mean I achieved it. So, unfortunately, from a scientific point of view, I have to tell you, and I know this is not the pep talk you like to hear now. Unfortunately, there is a a pretty reasonable scientific evidence against New Year's resolutions.
And, by the way, that's one of the reasons why I've never done them. I've done them when I was younger, 14, 15, 16 years old, and, usually, my New Year's resolution was, I have this amazing game on the Amiga, by the Amiga for for all this. It was a computer, and, yes, I am that old. So and my new year's resolution were, oh, I have this amazing game with that with with its amazing sound called Turrican, and next year, I'm going to beat the end boss. That was my new year's resolution at the age of 14 or something. So you see here, it was nothing of big impact. When you have new year's resolutions, there's one big question.
Also, you have to check for additional things. In your circumstances, check for 3 things. So first, what about self control? I'll give you an example. Self control, we some people are very strong on certain areas of self control. I will give you an example where I'm good at and where I'm not good at. So first, self control, I like to work a lot.
I like to work hard, and I'm pretty good with that. I still keep my sleeping rhythm, so I do not get burned out and can keep up my travels and everything else. So with that, perfect. I am pretty good at that. However, self control also means I mean, I'm I'm sitting now here recording my podcast. Next to me is a is a bottle of Coke, and and I know that Coke is not healthy. There's too much sugar in there.
It's not healthy to drink this. And when people know me from seminars or coachings or whatnot, you know that I drink Coke basically all day. No. Not basically. I drink it every day. And I'm aware that this is not healthy. However, every time when I say, let's drink water, I simply say, water doesn't taste that great.
So why not drink Coke? And then, of course, someone will say, well, that's not healthy.
You will get sick. And I will say, well, my last day sick was in 11th grade at school.
Haven't been sick ever since. By the way, I'm I'm I'm extremely grateful for that that I'm always healthy. And then people say, well, it will catch up with you later. And I say, well, I know many people that have never any issue, and this is going back in. I am not good at the self control when it comes to drinking a bottle of Coke a day. I usually drink half a liter of Coke every single day of my life. And that's, of course, not great when it comes to self control.
However, I never put myself to the goal saying stop doing that. There are aspects where you have to know I'm good with self control in these areas of life, and maybe I'm not that great with self control on the other areas of life. So for example, when you say, hey. I want to quit smoking, but my big weakness is as soon as I have people around me who smoke, I want to smoke as well and I know this and I still just simply do it. Are you able to get out of these situations where people smoke? And and if so, how do you want to accomplish it? And if not, well, maybe think of your goal or other means that you can do.
Because when you want to get rid of smoking, we all know that often many snake oil salesman tells you, oh, this one magic workshop and everyone stops to smoke and nothing of that works. It's an addiction, and it has to be dealt with accordingly. There are many ways to get out of smoking, but not not a single way of them. Not a single one is easy. And if anyone tells you it's easy, look into scientific evidence of smoking addictions. It's not easy. If someone claims otherwise, they just ignore scientific evidence.
So aspect number 1 here is self control. Aspect number 2 is what are your social circumstances? I'll give you an example. When you work in, let's say, a challenging situation and you say, I have many people around me. When when you now say, hey. My job is average, but okay.
But I'm struggling a bit. And many people in my circumstances, well, but we're good friends.
We like each other. And it's everything is reasonably okay. However, I want more from life. I go to university. And the first people who will tell you and make fun of you are probably people close to you. Not all of them, but some of them will say, oh, you're becoming one of these people. Yeah? The study people, the educated ones.
I think you're something better than we are. Yeah. So I come I I was born in not Northern Germany in Hamburg and then lived in Bamsteed, which is close to ham reasonably close to Hamburg, a very rural area. And when I, was one of the few actually, 4 people from my school decided that later we will study. And as soon as we started to say, we are going to study later because I wanted to go into teaching, exactly that happened. Certain people in my circumstances, oh, and you just going to be to become one of them, you know, these study people. Today, I think it's a bit better because people have less of a stigma against that studying and think it's less elitist than it was back in the days.
My parents pushed me towards it for a very simple reason. They wanted my best. Have I really been into studying without my parents pushing me? Probably not, but my parents knew better than I did when I was young. Thank you very much for that. So the the social circumstances can pull you back because the main problem is, let's say, when you work in average to challenging circumstances so far, you are happy, but it is challenging maybe financially, you want to have a better job, but you need a degree for that. As soon as you get out of these social circumstances and you, like phoenix from the ashes, raise above.
People do not want to see that. Because many people then know it is only about your own effort and maybe I just have to try harder, but no one wants to hear that. No one wants to hear, hey, it's in your own hands at least in this case and you just have to sit down twice a week or 3 times a week and during the evening do your study sessions and then complete the degree. People will pull you back, hopefully not all of them but some of them. So I can tell you your social circumstances, choose social circumstances that are supportive and by the way, very important here, do not fall for the trap of toxic positivity because I can tell you many people will say, oh degrees are not for me so I go to this cheesy motivational speaker. It's all about bringing life to the next level, all these cliches. And the first thing a motivational speaker will tell you is be aware.
When you come back from this workshop, people will tell you don't go there anymore. They say they tell you motivational speaking is not what anyone needs. These are the people who do not want to see your growth. These are the people who want to see you fail. These are the people who want to keep you back. No. Actually, these are people who know science and science tells you that motivational speakers do not work longer than 48 or 72 hours.
When you go to a motivational speaker, you're highly motivated. 3 days later, you're still sitting there in the same job with absolutely no track record anywhere on the job market and no toolbox that actually helps you. So it's very important that you have social circumstances that are supportive but on a factual basis, not on a singing, dancing, clapping, chumbawamba basis. And the third aspect here is external help. I'll give you an example. When you, for example, say, well, with the gym, I'm not really I'm not really good at keeping up the appointments I set myself. As soon as you probably say I get an external coach, you know, when I don't show up, I still have to pay the coach and suddenly you show up because, you know, it's all about money.
Of course, some people will now say, well, that's probably expensive, and it might be depending on how you do it. One of my friends who just had tremendous results within 1 year, he said he has an online fitness trainer. And I wondered, like, how does that work? Because do you take the phone to the gym and then the guy is yelling at you via the phone? That's no. He meets with his, trainer once a week, and then they look at certain things, certain muscle group. What do you what do they wanna do? They look at what he eat, what his sleep rhythm is.
They they they track data. He's wearing things during sleep, etcetera. So they they track everything they they can, and then he gets a tailored training plan. And he says, when he shows up next week and and the data shows he hasn't been to the gym, that guy will be very angry with him, and he doesn't want this guy to be angry. And I tell him, so why don't you just take one of these personal trainers in the gym? I know there are personal trainers in the I mean, I've been a gym member 3 times of my life, went there for 4 weeks, then became supportive member. So really not for me.
And when you take these kind of personal trainers with you, you can book them from the gym. And then he says, yeah, Nils, these people start at €70 an hour, and I go to the gym 5 days a week.
That's €350 a week. Per month, that is almost €1500. I do not have that money, and by the way, neither will I. But who has €1500 just left? And then there are different means. For example, when you have external help can be an online fitness trainer or an on-site business, fitness center when you have the money for it, but there are different means of external help. And there are scientific evidence that this works.
By the way, my services of training, speaking, coaching, mentoring, name it as you like, in the sustainable leadership area is exactly the same. Leaders check-in with me usually not daily. It's either biweekly or monthly, but they have coaching sessions to keep their leadership game up to the right level. And by the way, only work with people who are fully qualified for what they do. You wouldn't work with a fitness trainer who says, look, mate, I look great. Don't I? I don't have a trainer license, but, you know, I look great. Right? So get me as a trainer? No. You need to have trainer licenses and there's a good reason for that.
And when you talk about leadership, if anyone tells you they know leadership but they have zero scientific credential, that don't mean degrees. Degrees, of course, are helpful. However, there are different ways. You can do it via edX, via Coursera University online classes, and whatnot. There are many different versions and options and accesses. However, when someone holds zero scientific evidence to their name and they make a comment on leadership, it is usually common such as, like, oh, do you know the magic word? It's called please.
And that's just leadership training, which is straightforward. Sorry for the wording. It's straightforward garbage. It's nonsensical. Best cases, anecdotal evidence, meaning they make something up and tell you a story about that. So it's very important that your external help is qualified for what they do with a real life track record and the academic evidence and when they are a bit nice, a bit personal fit, and also maybe a bit fun in entertaining that makes a good well rounded offer. Taking all that together when people now say New Year's resolutions yes or no?
Looking at the signs tendency goes towards a no. New Year's resolutions show a very limited benefit for the people who use them. And Paul, you know that one example where things worked out, but you probably know hundreds of examples where it didn't. And when you want to plan for a successful future, data driven decision making is the key. You do a risk management and then you decide by data what you do. Would I recommend anyone to do new year solutions? No, because the risk that you face a massive frustrations mid January and you will think for month, oh my god, I failed and the year has just begun. That is the big problem that will demotivate you for the rest of the year, maybe even long term and longer term than just the whole year.
New Year's resolutions show limited benefits for the people who use them because when you want to change something, why do you wait for the new year? Why not start right now? And when you have good reasons, then solve these reasons and then start. You don't need a January 1st to start because when when people tell me, oh, the beginning of the year is not arbitrary.
Well, it totally is. I just by scientific evidence because people say, oh, everyone has New Year's. Well, they do, but as you probably have heard, for example, Chinese New Year is not on the same time as our as probably German New Year. And that tells you how arbitrary it is. It's just a point in the calendar. So why is that the moment where suddenly everything changes? And when you give me scientific evidence, why?
I'm I'm looking forward to hearing from you. But most people can't give me that scientific evidence. So very important here, I would strongly recommend you not to do New Year's resolutions. They have limited benefits. When you want to change something, why not do it now? When, of course, it will say, hey, Neil. You didn't go to the gym.
Can you tell me an example? Well, I can tell you some examples. So the last 2 years, I finished an MBA besides full time work and executive MBA. So the MBA in York, UK besides full time work and executive MBA in London, UK besides full time work. And I just now applied for, master of science in management research, which starts with a master of science and then straight goes into a DBA, a doctorate program. And that is running for the next 4 years, and I just successfully got into that mid of December. And I started mid of December.
When I get a yes on the December, I don't think it was December, which day was it? Let me just quickly check. I got the yes on the December 16th. I don't need to wait for New Year's Eve to read the first books, open the first PDF, register with the university, or start reading or watching the lectures. I don't need to wait. I don't need a January 1st, and neither do you. So very important is New Year's resolutions.
So limited benefits for the ones who use them. Often people try to sell you something with New Year's resolutions, New Year, New You. Step away from that. Always look for scientific evidence, real world track record. And when the person helping you is a bit nice, charming, probably a bit entertaining, bit funny, has a real world track record and scientific evidence is most important. The entertainment bit adds to that. When you want to change something, you do not need to wait to the new year, so why not get started now?
I wish you all the best. And when you now say, hey. I need to talk about that. That is pretty complex, and I know it is.
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I wish you a happy new year, a happy successful year, but I'm very serious with that. And that's the most important thing here. I wish you a happy healthy new year 2025. Because at the end of this podcast, as usual, there's only one thing left for me to say. Thank you very much for your time.