# This Year I Will... ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/412URAV%2BV5L._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[M.J. Ryan]] - Full Title: This Year I Will... - Category: #books ## Highlights - percent of heart patients don’t stick to the lifestyle changes they need to make in order to live longer and healthier lives. Even faced with the dramatic choice to change or die, they can’t do it. I don’t believe they want to die. ([Location 128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000MAHBZK&location=128)) - “Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.” ([Location 197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000MAHBZK&location=197)) - The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. —GOETHE ([Location 232](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000MAHBZK&location=232)) - Recently I was having lunch with my friend Sue Bender, author of Plain and Simple. It was she who reminded me that whatever we’re doing, healthy or unhealthy, is always a solution to some problem. “In order to change,” she said, “you have to ask what need the current behavior is addressing. Otherwise you may want to change, but not be able to.” ([Location 302](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000MAHBZK&location=302))