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Feel Stuck, Confused, or Behind? Use THIS Blueprint and Completely Transform Your Life in ONE Year!

Jan 16, 202623 min
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Episode description

Real change doesn’t happen all at once, It’s built through quiet, repeated choices most people never notice. In this episode, Jay challenges the idea that transformation requires motivation or perfect timing, revealing instead that lasting change is created through systems, structure, and intentional design. He explains why most people stay stuck year after year, not because they lack discipline or talent, but because they rely on hope when what they need is strategy.

Jay walks us through a practical blueprint for lasting transformation, beginning with reshaping your environment so the right habits become your default. From upgrading your identity to mastering one skill that can reshape your confidence, career, and self-belief, he shows how small improvements compound over time. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and real human stories, Jay reframes success as consistency over perfection, choosing discipline when motivation fades and stepping into who you’re meant to become.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How to Change Your Life by Redesigning Your Environment 

How to Make Good Habits Your Default 

How to Use Fear as a Signal to Take Action

How to Break Big Goals Into Four Powerful Seasons

How to Transform Your Life by Serving Others

This year isn’t about becoming someone else, it’s about becoming more of who you already are, with better systems, healthier boundaries, and stronger habits to support you. Progress won’t be linear, and that’s okay. What matters is staying committed to the direction, not the speed. Every effort counts, even the ones no one sees. 

With Love and Gratitude,

Jay Shetty

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro

00:41 How to Change Your Life in One Year

03:29 #1: Start With Redesigning Your System

06:35 #2: The Four Seasons of Growth

08:57 #3: Fix the Relationships that Matter

11:50 #4: Fear Grows the Longer You Avoid It

14:48 #5: The Power of Service

17:58 Give Yourself a Year to Make a Difference

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Transcript

Intro

Speaker 1

Who do I want to become. It's not about the goal, It's about the growth you're willing to undertake in order to achieve the goal. Success is quiet mornings, late nights, and one hundred almosts before one yes. Success is choosing discipline on the day's motivation doesn't show up. Success is doing the work when no one's watching and no one's clapping. Success is walking away from what drains you so you can protect what grows you. The number one health and wellness podcast, Jay Set Jay set.

Speaker 2

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How to Change Your Life in One Year

Speaker 1

I was stuck, confused, and unsuccessful until I did this. What if I told you that one year from today you could wake up as a completely different person and the only thing standing in the way is the way you're thinking about this year. Most people never change their lives, not because they're lazy, not because they're untalented, but because they don't understand this one truth. Your life doesn't change in a year. Your life changes in the tiny decisions

you repeat for a year. We waste entire years waiting for motivation, waiting for clarity, waiting for timing, waiting for confidence, and while we wait, the year quietly disappears. Here's an uncomfortable statistic ninety two percent of people never follow through on their New year goals, not because they don't want to change, but because they're using hope as a strategy

instead of a system. But here's the inspiring part. One year is long enough to transform almost anything about your life, your body, your relationships, your career, your self worth, your habits, your emotional health, if you understand the science of real change. In this episode, I'm going to give you a twelve month blueprint that has helped millions of people transform their lives, a framework backed by psychology research and real human stories. And I promise you this, By the end of these

thirty minutes, you will no longer fear the future. You will feel prepared to shape it. So let's begin. Before we talk about how to change your life, we need to talk about why most people don't. It's not a lack of intelligence. It's not a lack of discipline, it's not a lack of opportunity. It's a lack of a system. Let me tell you a story. A friends one told me, Jay, I keep trying to change and nothing sticks. Sound familiar.

He'd buy new planners, he'd download new apps, he'd watch motivational speeches, and every year he ended up exactly where he started, exhausted and confused us. He wasn't failing. His strategy was failing in moments of temptation only three to five minutes. Motivation spikes and crashes. But systems, routines, environments, structures, they keep going long after motivation dies. So here's the first truth. Your life won't change when you try harder.

It will change when you redesign the system you live inside.

#1: Start With Redesigning Your System

Let's build that system together. If you want a new year, you need a new default. Most people try to change their life using motivation. Science shows your environment drives forty five percent of your daily behavior, almost half your life. Let me give you a real example. I once worked with someone who could never stick to a morning routine. She tried alarms, apps, planners. Nothing worked. Then we changed our environment. We re arranged her nightstand. We moved her

phone to another room. We put her journal where her phone used to be. We laid out her gym clothes the night before, right next to her bed. We simplified her kitchen counter. Suddenly her identity matched her environment. She didn't become a disciplined person, she became a supported person. Here's what I want you to do. Here are some actionable steps for this year. Number one, redesign your morning and night anchors. These two thirty minute windows shape your

entire day. If you understand this one thing, you can build discipline. Make the things you need easy to find, and make the things you don't want hard to find. You want to work out in the morning, make sure your gym clothes are easy to find. You don't want to have a midnight stack. Make sure those chips are hard to find. This leads us to number two. Remove friction from good habits. Make good habits easier than bad ones. So many of us make good habits hard to do.

We make it hard to stay healthy because our snack drawers are full of bad snacks. We make it harder to work out because we subscribe to a gym that's thirty minutes away. We make it harder to be focused on our work because our desk is full of clutter. Number three, upgrade your identity. Don't ask what goal do I want? We all go what gold do I want? Here's what I want you to ask instead, who do I want to become? It's not about the goal, it's about the growth you're willing to undertake in order to

achieve the goal. Success is quiet mornings, late nights, and one hundred almost before one yes. Success is choosing discipline on the day's motivation doesn't show up. Success is doing the work when no one's watching and no one's clapping. Success is walking away from what drains you so you can protect what grows you. Success is being patient with the process even when the results are late. Success is becoming the person your future requires, not the person your

past expects. Here's the second truth. A year equals four seasons of learning. A year is long enough to learn a skill that can reroot your entire life, not a hobby.

#2: The Four Seasons of Growth

A skill skills change identity. Skills build confidence, skills increase opportunity. Skills compound statistic show learning a new skill reduces anxiety and depression by up to thirty four percent. Add out to engage in continuous learning reports significantly higher life satisfaction. Let me tell you a story. Once told me she felt stuck in her job and stuck in her identity. We made one shift. She committed to learning public speaking

twenty minutes a day, just twenty minutes. One year later, she was leading meetings, pitching ideas confidently, and interviewing for a promotion. The skill didn't just change your career, it changed herself perception. So here are practical choices that you can make this year. Pick one of these and master it. Public speaking, emotional regulation, networking, mindfulness, creative writing, financial literacy,

communication skill. One skill can create ten opportunities. I think about all the skills I invest in every single year and how they've transformed my life. If you want to change your life in a year, learning one skill could help you accelerate and transform your tradress in ways nothing else could. Here's what I recommend do what I call immersion weekends. Spend a whole weekend attending courses, seminars, reading books,

listening to podcasts about that subject. You will know very quickly what you want to invest in and what you want to spend more timely. We all want to feel better, to have more energy and more focused throughout the day. That's why I co founded Juni, a sparkling adaptogenet drink made with powerful ingredients like ushwagandha and Lion's maine. It's designed to boost your mood, support your focus, and give you natural energy, all without the crash. A new classic reimagined.

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#3: Fix the Relationships that Matter

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back in the process. Juni is now available at Whole Foods market nationwide, and I'd love for you to try it for free. Head to Drinkjuni dot com, forward slash ja and get a complimentary can of Juny on me at any Whole Foods market rather than I created Juny with a simple intention to help you feel better from the inside out. It's a sparkling, adaptogenic drink crafted with ushwagandha Lion's Mane and green tea to boost to mood, support your focus, and give you clean natural energy that

stays with you throughout the day. So go to Drinkjuni dot com, forward slash Jay, and run to your nearest whole Foods market for your free Juny. I can't wait for you to try it. Cheers. Here's the truth. One decision can separate who you were from who you're becoming. One decision can end an old chapter and begin a better one. One decision can change your confidence forever, and one decision can rewrite your entire story. All it takes

is one decision. Truth number three. Fix the relationships that matter, because connection equals quality of life. The Harvard Study of Adult Development, conducted by Robert Waldinger, who I've had the honor of interviewing on on purpose twice. This is the longest happiness study ever done, found the quality of your relationships is the strongest predictor of your future wellbeing. Your life doesn't change alone. Your life changes through better conversations,

better boundaries, and deeper connections. So here's what I want you to do in twenty twenty six. Repair one relationship this year that matters. Release one draining connection that has expired. Deepen one meaningful bond for more support, schedule one weekly connection ritual. Here's the harsh truth. Loneliness is not the absence of people. It's the absence of understanding. Loneliness is not the absence of company, it's being surrounded and still

#4: Fear Grows the Longer You Avoid It

feeling unseen. Loneliness is not the absence of conversation. It's talking without ever being heard. Loneliness is not the absence of relationships, it's the absence of someone you can be honest with. Loneliness is not the absence of someone, it's the absence of safety. Ask yourself, which relationship is worth improving or which ones do you need to distance from? Which relationship would have the greatest positive benefit in your life if you invested in it more. Here are four

questions that will change your relationships. Who do you need to call more, Who do you need to talk to less? Who do you want to spend time with? Who do you need to distance from? If you focused on transforming your relationships this year, it will transform your life. You know what truly holds you back. Relationships that drain you, people who misunderstand you no matter how clearly you speak, conversations that take energy but give none back. Connections that

make you doubt yourself instead of support yourself. It's not your potential that's limited. It's the people who keep pulling you backwards while you're trying to push forward. Take an inventory of the people in your life this year. You don't have to make big changes. You don't have to just cut people out, but recognize what would move the needle and give it some time and energy. Truth number four. Fear becomes bigger the further you stand from it. Fear

becomes smaller the closer you move toward it. Action reduces anxiety. Avoidance amplifies it. Here are some practical steps for this year. Create a fear list instead of a to do list. Right, we all make to do lists, but I want you to make a fear list. Break each fear to five micro actions, and then I want you to reward action, not outcome. Because here's the mistake we make. You don't have to overcome fear before you do something. You have to do the thing whilst you're still feeling the fear.

You don't get over your fear, then start a business. You start a business, feel scared, nervous, and anxious and still move forward. What the fearless does is it makes you face what you're actually struggling with. The reason you don't do your to do list is because you're scared. The reason you cancel that meeting is because you're scared. The reason you don't send your resume is because you're scared. The reason you don't ask for a promotion is because

you're scared. We're so scared of rejection, we're so scared of failing, that we don't take action before we can

#5: The Power of Service

remove that feeling. What we don't realize is that life is all about doing things, even with the feelings that you think are holding you back. Please, please, don't let your fears ruin your future. Please don't let your fears keep you stuck in places you've already outgrown. Please don't let your fears make you walk away from something good before you've even tried. Please don't let your fears turn

temporary uncertainty into a lifetime of regret. And please don't let your fears talk you out of the future you know you deserve. It's fascinating to me how many of us set goals and don't meet them, not because the goals aren't right, but because we haven't addressed the fear. If we don't face our fears, we can't move forward

toward our goals. So instead of just looking at your goals every year and wondering why you're not there yet, make this the year you face your fears, address them, focus on them, break through them by taking action even when they exist. One of my favorite quotes that I've ever heard is, if you feel afraid, do it afraid. If you feel scared, do it scared. If you feel anxious, do it anxious, And if you feel nervous, do it nervous.

It's better to do the thing even feeling that way, than to hope you will get over that feeling so you can finally start. Truth number six, the power of service. Service isn't just charity. Service is identity, it's meaning. It's medicine. Neuroscience shows that helping others activates the brain's reward pathways, the same circuits that light up for purpose and joy. There's even studies that show that when people are experiencing depression,

if they help others with depression, theirs goes down. So sometimes we also say to ourselves, I'll help when I have more, not realizing you'll have more if you help now. If you help someone now, you feel great a self esteem. You count your blessings. You realize what skills you have. I learned about the skills and talents I have because I started using things in the service of others, even before I knew I had them. Here are some practical ways you can do that. You could volunteer one hour

a week. You could help one person quietly. You could use your skills for someone else's benefit of the community. Pick one issue you worry about and get involved. If

Give Yourself a Year to Make a Difference

you want to change your life, change someone else's day. If you want to change your year, change someone else's week. If you want to change your month, change someone else's hour. You can transform your life by transforming someone else's. So here's your year. Redesigned. Break your year into four ninety day seasons. Season one Reset, Redesign your environment and your habits. Season two Learn master two skills that change your confidence

and direction. Promise you will make a big difference. Season three Connect, Repair, deepen and rebuild relationships. Season four Expand, Face fears, take risks, and create something new. You don't have to do everything I said in one season a years four CSA. You don't see the weather trying to snow, rain, sunshine, and everything else all in one day. That's not what the climate tries to do. Move in seasons. Remember this, A year isn't three hundred and sixty five days, it's

fifty two chances, twelve chapters, and four seasons. Your life can change this year, not because the year is magical, but because you are capable. You don't need a perfect plan, you don't need certainty, you don't need confidence, you need momentum. You need one decision, you need one step, and you need to remember this. One year of intention can undo ten years of drifting. So choose one thing today, one habit, one relationship, one skill, one decision, one fear, one active service,

and just start. A year from now, you will look back and barely recognize the person you used to be because your life doesn't change some day, it changes the day that you just start. The insight and advice that I've shared with you today will truly make a difference. I've had the fortune of having incredible years in my life where I have changed my life in a year, and when you look at it that way, you actually give yourself the opportunity to transform. Sometimes we want to

change our life in a day. We want to change our life in a month. Give yourself a year this year to really make a difference. See, we think consistency looks like this. Real consistency looks like this. Right. If you think to yourself, I'm going to work out five days a week every week for the rest of the year. The one week where you only do three days, you'll feel like a failure. So what do you do? You recognize five's the average. There'll be some weeks you do seven.

There'll be some weeks you do three. There'll be some weeks you do four, and there'll be some weeks you do six. When you give yourself that flexibility and adaptability to hit the average, not the ideal, every single week, you finally give yourself an opportunity to make a huge difference. I've seen so many people try to put too much pressure on themselves. I've seen so many people who've been

so harsh to themselves. If you really want this year to be the year that everything changes, follow these steps, stay accountable, Find someone you can share these goals with, and move forward together. Your goal doesn't get you to the goal. It's the growth that gets you to the goal. How are you willing to grow? Who are you willing to become? What are you willing to change? If you'veocus on transformation over the destination, you will get there quicker.

Often we keep looking at the goal and thinking it's so far away. It's so hard to get there. I don't know when it's going to happen. If we just focused on the next step, the next step forward, just one step at a time, you'll be at the destination in no time. Please know that you can change your life in a year by changing the few things that I laid out and remember and forever in your corner. I'm always rooting for you and I wish you all the best. Thank you so much for watching this video.

I'm so grateful for your support. Twenty twenty six is going to be the best here.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

I want you to subscribe to my channel so you never miss a video. Thank you so much for listening to this conversation. If you enjoyed it, you'll love my chat with Adam Grant on why discomfort is the key to growth and the strategies for unlocking your hidden potential. If you know you want to be more and achieve more this year. Go check it out right now.

Speaker 2

You set a goal today, you achieve it in six months, and then by the time it happens, it's almost a relief. There's no sense of meaning and purpose. You sort of expected it, and you would have been disappointed if it didn't happen.

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