Obligatory Post of the New Year: 2013

Apocalypse NOT!

2013 is underway and with that, the same droning echoes of deluded promises of self-improvement.

Which explains why for only the next month or two, gyms will be packed and then thin out by mid-March/early April. That's being generous in my estimate.

I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just stating facts that have oft repeated themselves time and time again. For the gym example, people seem to think that it's easy even though they KNOW it isn't. Does that make sense? But it isn't, it requires a lot of hard work and dedication and further changes in their comfortable lifestyle.

And that's why people fail in their new year's resolutions: they lack the dedication to step outside of their comfort zone for longer than a few minutes. This explains why- if I had a new year's resolution, it'd be the same as last year's: nothin'.

If you set the bar low and somehow do something, you will have surpassed your own expectations and actually accomplished something. The reason this works is because we often get carried away in our own quests for self-improvement that our modest goals become so lofty and enormous that they teeter on impossible for our current skill set.

Of course, you should aspire to something. I wouldn't recommend stretching so far that your bones get dislocated because you're gonna hurt yourself but reach for a goal.

Good luck!

Don't just do nothing, ass.