Turn the "New Year's Resolutions" gambit on its head! Lori Leibovich's NYT essay "How to Future-Proof Your Happiness in the New Year" suggests several approaches, including thoughts from Oliver Burkeman:

... resolutions can sometimes make people feel worse, not better. We often expect massive changes done perfectly from the outset, he explained. So whatever you hope to do in the new year, let yourself start off poorly. “Ten minutes spent very badly jogging,” he said, is “just infinitely more valuable than all the most amazing plans to do it perfectly.”

... and from Chris Bennett, who recommends re Resolutions:

... Don’t do them. Instead, double down on the healthy habits you already have “and then celebrate them,” he said.

Maybe you read before bed each night or avoid grabbing your phone first thing in the morning. Try not to take these habits for granted, he said: “We do really great, awesome things that we would make a resolution to do if we weren’t already doing them.”

Excellent inversion of the obvious!

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