January 1

At the New Year, we usually resolve to quit something. There is a psychological law of quitting. It’s this: The more you keep quitting, the easier quitting becomes. I know, for I’ve spent a lot of time quitting fattening foods.

But I finally discovered how to quit successfully. Quit for one meal, then two, then three. By now it begins to get tough. So you get tougher, quit the next day and the next. After a while, pride enters the picture to help you. You begin to boast about all the things you haven’t eaten. Then you point with pride to your belt, for you have tightened it to the last notch. This is called positive quitting and can be applied to anything you want to change in your life.