The speaker discusses their struggles with keeping New Year's resolutions. They reveal that they make resolutions every year but never manage to keep them throughout the year. After reflecting on their past behavior, they realized that they often deceive themselves into thinking they're not cheating on their goals when they actually are.
The speaker then talks about common types of people who struggle with New Year's resolutions, including:
1. The New Year's High person who's overly hyped but doesn't make any changes.
2. The Technicality Cheater who finds loopholes to cheat on their resolutions.
3. The Unrealistic Goals person who sets unachievable goals.
4. The Way Too Easy Goals person who sets goals that are too simple.
5. The Person in Denial who makes resolutions about everything except the actual problem.
6. The Reset Button person who thinks the new year is a reset button for past mistakes.
7. The Secretive person who has resolutions they don't want to share with others.
Despite initially struggling to keep their own resolutions, the speaker comes to the realization that it's essential to be honest with oneself, acknowledge flaws and failures, and not deceive oneself. They conclude that it's okay to fail and that learning from failures is key to improvement.
Here are the key facts from the text:
1. The speaker spent time in Hawaii.
2. The speaker made a New Year's resolution to stop drinking energy drinks.
3. The speaker failed to keep their New Year's resolution last year.
4. The speaker now has a list of new resolutions, including eating healthier, not offending people, and not cursing.
5. The resolutions also include no more fart jokes, dark jokes, bad puns, and dad jokes.
6. The speaker has a tendency to "BS" themselves and convince themselves they're not cheating on their goals.
7. The speaker identifies different types of people who struggle with New Year's resolutions, including the "New Year's high" person, the technicality cheater, the unrealistic goals person, the way-too-easy goals person, the person in denial, the reset button person, and the secretive person.
8. The speaker acknowledges that it's okay to fail at resolutions as long as you don't lie to yourself and can learn from your failures.
9. The speaker ends the video with a humorous tone, acknowledging their flaws and tendency to make bad jokes.