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Exactly. If it's important, you'll want to start right away. If it's not important, you'll probably fail in the commitment.

• repsilat 13y ago
  > If it's not important, you'll probably fail in the commitment. As anecdotal evidence against this, my 2013 resolutions[1] were both unimportant and resounding successes. The trick, I think, is that they were just different ways of doing things I already did, not new things to do every day. They required some willpower but no planning or time, and they were difficult to ignore or forget about. That is a fairly limiting description, though, and I did stumble onto it by chance. It will inform my future resolutions, though. I probably won't decide to "write a little every day" because it's too easy a promise to break. On the other hand, something like "no using the tablet in bed before dinner" will probably work. 1: use my non-dominant hand for everything, and always stand under the shower when I turn it on.