Start with Subtraction

It’s about that time of year: when the planet fitness ad campaigns are supplanted by Carnival Cruise lines telling you that you need to get away. With nearly half of us already having given up on our New Year’s Resolutions, we can bury our defeat and shame with a tropical escape or some other purchase that lets those “ambitious goals” we had in mind fade ever more quickly into the past. But where did it all go wrong?

I’ve found myself repeatedly guilty of something we all do: we try to add too much to our lives. We want to add an extra two days per week in the gym, add dollars to our…