With the new year under way in all its dark and dreary Januaryness, some of you might already be losing the motivation to follow through on the promises you made just a few days ago — to become healthier, wealthier, wirier and altogether more impressive versions of yourselves in 2023. If you haven’t already given up on them, 80 per cent of you are likely to have abandoned any resolutions you might have made by the second week of February.But before you are tempted to abandon this column too, allow me to offer you something a little more hopeful. You might not be managing to jump merrily out of bed every morning at 4am, or to make much progress on the 10,000-hours-to-mastery thing, but there are less arduous ways of tackling self-improvement that could end up having more impact.
在黑暗而沉悶的1月裏，新的一年已經開始了，你們中的一些人可能已經失去了動力，不想兌現幾天前剛剛做出的承諾——在2023年變得更健康、更富有、更強壯，總的來說變成一個更精彩的自己。如果說你們還沒有放棄這些承諾，那麼到了2月的第二週，你們中80%的人可能已經放棄了曾經下定的任何決心。