There's something unique about New Year's that tends to inspire us.

I think it's part of this idea that if you have a fresh calendar or maybe you have a fresh

start, a new perspective, new actions, new results, maybe a chance for a new victory in

your life.

So it feels like the New Year, we can almost reinvent ourselves.

It's kind of like New Year, New Year, New Year, New Life.

But in truth, the calendar's arbitrary.

And that's why so many people participate in New Year's resolutions and they get horrible

results.

It's because there's something inside of us that wants to make things better.

We want to be better as people.

We want to become more, do more, share more, create more, give more.

But it's not quite what really works for us because we want all these things we think

are going to make us happy.

We want to grow and contribute.

But then what happens is everybody wants a great body, but nobody wants to work out,

right?

What got to understand is that progress equals happiness.

If you know what you want and you can make consistent progress, you're going to get there.

You're going to get to where you really want to be, where that sense of passion and

aliveness, the result you want, really do occur.

But at the beginning of the year, most people's idea of creating a resolution is, you know,

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