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pm pn gw bk">It’s a new year, and everyone’s talking about resolutions. By next week, we’ll avoid the topic because we tunneled our way through the bag of Oreos one week after we swore them off forever.</p><p id="02be" class="pw-post-body-paragraph os ot hd ou b ig ov ow ox ij oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk pl pm pn gw bk">We’ve all done it. We miscalculated the amount of willpower we cultivated over the past year — even though we took no action to prepare ourselves for even the smallest of goals. And because of our selective amnesia, we forget that the same thing happened last year and the year before that and the year before that.</p><p id="13db" class="pw-post-body-paragraph os ot hd ou b ig ov ow ox ij oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk pl pm pn gw bk">Statistics repeatedly show that only a tiny percentage of people (I’m talking single digits. . . . and by single digits, I mean like two people) follow through with resolutions. So, why do we put ourselves through all the torture?</p><p id="0e6a" class="pw-post-body-paragraph os ot hd ou b ig ov ow ox ij oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk pl pm pn gw bk">Humans are striving creatures. We find purpose in working toward goals. The problem with striving for something so big and immediate is that it can be challenging and stressful, which some people are cut out for (remember those two people I mentioned earlier?) and others are not (almost all of us).</p><p id="6de5" class="pw-post-body-paragraph os ot hd ou b ig ov ow ox ij oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk pl pm pn gw bk">This leads me to a conversation I had with co-editor Toni Greathouse. 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