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Have you ever picked out a hike in the mountains, but once you arrive at the base and look up, you think to yourself, “oh man, I have to climb that?” Your enthusiasm might bleed away a little bit.

Famed poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

“New year, new me!”

Prolific and unique musician MF Doom once said, “I'm always trying to show versatility. I'm juggling, and I'm flipping fire, and I'm chewing gum and rhyming at the same time... on a unicycle, while playing the drums.”

Consider sugar and salt—both are “spices” of a kind, and since they’re both often in the form of fine white grain, they look similar as well. So similar in fact, you might mistakenly switch one in for the other, setting yourself up for quite the surprise at first bite.

American journalist Sydney J. Harris once said that “the two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”

If you know the game of football, you know that the quarterback runs the show. He calls the plays, reads the defense, and leads the team—that position is often considered the primary factor in a team’s success. You won’t win the game if the QB doesn’t perform.

If you don’t already play, a basic game of darts starts you with a sum of points. The idea is to hit spots on the board worth more points that you’ll subtract from your starting total, with the bullseye being worth the biggest deduction. The player who reaches zero first wins.