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The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally, at
least, most of us could compile formidable lists of 'dos' and
'don'ts'. The same old favorites recur year in year out with
monotonous regularity. We resolve to get up earlier each
morning, eat less, find more time to play with the children,
do a thousand and one jobs about the house, be nice to people
we don't like, drive carefully, and take the dog for a walk
every day. Past experience has taught us that certain
accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain
inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often
experienced the frustration that results from failure. Most
of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our
schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry
them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing
our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more
foolish when we slip back into our bad old ways. Aware of
these pitfalls, this year I attempted to keep my resolutions
to myself. I limited myself to two modest ambitions
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to do
physical exercise every morning and to read more of an
evening. An all-night party on New Year's Eve provided me
with a good excuse for not carrying out either of these new
resolutions on the first day of the year, but on the second,
I applied myself assiduously to the task.
The daily exercises lasted only eleven minutes and I
proposed to do them early in the morning before anyone had
got up. The self-discipline required to drag myself out of
bed eleven minutes earlier than usual was considerable.