My golden rule to get through January |
There’s a very small window at the beginning of every new year when a surprisingly large chunk of the population becomes convinced that January is the perfect time to overhaul absolutely everything: their personality, their exercise regime, their diet, their entire outlook on life.
You’ll recognise them immediately. They’re the ones in brand-new running shoes, clutching a reusable water bottle, awake before the bins are collected. They run past you on the way to work with a look on their face that says, “I ate too much and drank too much at Christmas and now I must suffer”.
I’m awake before the bins are collected too, but that’s only because I have to be for my radio show. There’s a big difference between being up early because you’re contractually obliged and being up early because you’ve decided January is the month you finally become a........