During the few days I was home at my parents’ house over Christmas, I did a little digging around in the back of my closet. Most of the Rubbermaid containers and cardboard boxes held prom photos and tickets to high school football games, but one tattered and folded piece of paper stood out from the rest: written in gel pen (remember those?), it was boldly titled “New Years Resolutions 2005.” And it was two pages long.

Apparently I was a wildly overzealous teenager — or was I just crazy?

“Wake up at 6 to go running before school every day.”