New Year’s resolutions that can create meaningful change for fans, franchises, and sports [Video]

Thoughts and prayers to anyone hitting the gym this month, as New Year’s resolutioners, hopped up on pre-workout, optimism and post-holiday diet guilt, overrun your local health club. If we’re discussing substances that help whip civilians into shape, January motivation is a top-tier performance-enhancing drug.

But if you, like me, have been around a while, you also know motivation has a short half-life. That’s why three quarters of the people you see pumping iron on Jan.1 are back on the couch by Valentine’s Day. If you want to make meaningful progress, you need to make that new behaviour a habit.

It works in fitness, where habit sustains your workout routine once that initial surge of motivation wanes.  It also works in sports opinion writing, where most of us are in the habit of using late December and early January to write wish lists for all kinds of sports world stakeholders.

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