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when you make a "fresh start" or grand resolution to do something, you get a rush of reward chemicals as if you actually did the thing. That's why so many peopl
by JohnMakin 3y ago
when you make a "fresh start" or grand resolution to do something, you get a rush of reward chemicals as if you actually did the thing. That's why so many people make resolutions and then barely ever keep them. Incremental, daily changes are much more difficult and less rewarding to those centers of our brain.
- t43562 3y agoI feel that's the way it works - not "I'll start being good tomorrow" but the way in which you change those small decisions that you make 20 times a day about whether to eat something or do some exercise or whatever. When you flex your decision making so that it regularly turns up right answers you have "got on the wagon". I have done this with diets and I'm currently "off the wagon" and this business of getting on usually starts with one big long bit of exercise - like an especially long walk and somehow I get the discipline out of that to kick me onto the right track. Once on the track I'm ok till I am sick or until the darkest bit of winter or until very stressful things happen at work. So I realise life will always be up and down for me - which is just better than always down.