New Year's Resolutions

I have a simple rule in my life: If you want to do something, you do it. If you don't, you don't. You want to start exercising? You start exercising. You want to learn a new language? You start learning a new language. It's that easy. And if you don't do it, you don't want it.

New Year's resolutions fall under the latter part of that rule. You tell yourself that you want to do something, but you don't start doing it immediately. All you do is having an excuse ready to not start now. And when the time comes, you're very likely to have another excuse to not start now. Or you straight up give up, because - in reality - you don't want to do it.

Not everything about New Year's resolutions is bad. They do make you think about your life and what you should improve in it. But you have to start the moment you decide to change something, not in the following year.