“Well, whatever”, you think. “The next month will come soon” and then you will finally start the workout you where pushing to the next day, and then to the next, and the next. I was exactly like that. Every new change or thing I wanted to try out, I started on a Monday, or on the first of the following month. But why is this? Why do we need a clean start? Does it make us feel better? Or is it just to push the task further and further away? I guess it is the pushing away thing. Because, when you have something you can’t wait to try out, for example, like when you buy new running shoes, you do not wait until the next Monday or month. No! You get home, put them right on and hit the trails.

This means, that we only “begin” things or tasks we do not like on the first of…