Okay, I'm about to drop wisdom again. Prepare yourself. And apologies if this grand insight sounds more like common sense, or you just read it somewhere, or you've known it all along.
But listen: There's only so much you can do in a day. You run out of time, resources, and energy. Or, long before any of those things actually happens, you lose the will, or just reach the end of your willpower (which apparently is a limited resource) and suddenly you're slumped in a chair clicking a remote or a mouse or a game controller for the rest of the night, wondering what the point of your life is. So how do you keep your human nature from torpedoing your New Year's resolutions before you've even gotten started?
You have to take whatever energy and willpower you do have—this is the wisdom part now—and focus it all on feeling better. If you feel better, everything gets easier, including feeling even more…better. Eventually, you'll feel great! And when that happens, you'll never have to make resolutions again. You'll do all that good stuff because you wanted to all along—and now you feel great!
Obviously, stuff happens, our bodies inevitably decline, and not everyone can feel great. But I bet almost everyone can feel better.
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