# Resolutions vs Goals I was chatting with a friend who asked me what my New Year’s resolutions were. I replied that I don’t have resolutions - I have goals. My Goals are set using data that I already know about myself. They might sound very similar to resolutions but there is a key difference. I’ll illustrate with an example. A classic New Year’s resolution is wanting to get healthy. Most people have a general idea of how to do that - by eating right, exercising, and getting more sleep. My New Years' goal is very similar. I just add some numbers to it - eat carbs less than 5 times a month, run 10 miles a week, increase total push-ups every week, and sleep at least 7 hours every night. I have 5-10 years' worth of data about myself in Druck. It’s easy to look at what a good year, month, week, and day look like. These insights provide me the numbers I need to set specific goals to try and make the incoming new year better than the outgoing one. I can’t control everything in the world. Shit happens, as we all know too well. But I’ve found that setting specific goals with numbers to back them, gives me a higher chance of attaining them, rather than just saying "I’d like to do such and such", which never seemed to quite stick for me. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.druckapp.com/essays/resolutions-vs-goals.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.