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.
在黑暗而沉闷的1月里，新的一年已经开始了，你们中的一些人可能已经失去了动力，不想兑现几天前刚刚做出的承诺——在2023年变得更健康、更富有、更强壮，总的来说变成一个更精彩的自己。如果说你们还没有放弃这些承诺，那么到了2月的第二周，你们中80%的人可能已经放弃了曾经下定的任何决心。