Eight New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep

Time to get real about your lack of ambition

Every year, in tandem with the arbitrary turning of the Western calendar — a meaningless human construct — millions of people resolve to change their ways. Eat better. Lose weight. Learn a new skill. Live life to the fullest.

Not only does this approach inevitably end in futility, it’s an objectively pointless endeavor. Setting unrealistic goals — and fa…