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Gearing Up for a New Year
On resolutions, and repeating the Same Old Thing every year, and how to get ‘er did this coming decade
In a few days many of us, in the painful haze of post-New Year’s Eve celebrations, will stumble into the office, coffee in hand, and make a list.
Type or write, makes no diff. Except that what you physically write, your body will remember. You may not do it, but you are more likely to remember. That you didn’t do it, as it were.
As a dedicated fitness nut, I witness the Annual Migration of the Newly Committed to my gym. For forty-six years I’ve watched this parade with bemusement. Suddenly the chest press has a line. You can’t find your 15-lb dumbbells. The weight room is so jammed at 5:30 pm you have to show up at 5:30 am. Sigh. Wait til March.
The most popular annual resolutions, for those who write them (which is more common among younger folks who don’t yet have the history of breaking them year after year) are to lose weight, exercise more and make more money. Or words to that effect. Oh, and find love, so that by Valentine’s Day I can quit the gym.
For four decades, mine was to stop my eating disorder. I would toss out hundreds of dollars’ worth of cookies into garbage.