If I can make only one suggestion to immediately and immensely improve your quality of life this year, it is this: take apart your shower head and give it a good cleaning. The CEO’s story:

For the past several months my showers (which by all rights should be the highlight of my day) have, in some vague, ill-defined manner, been less satisfying than they once were. In and of itself I barely noticed the degradation of my showering experience, but I think the dissatisfaction was starting to manifest in other areas of my life: trouble sleeping, grumpiness at home, couldn’t concentrate at work, seeing conspiracies of hippies everywhere, that sort of thing.

Then, last week, the CEO was struck with a flash of brilliance so blinding I almost fell out of my chair; I felt like Newton must have felt when that apple fell on him. I rushed home and took apart the HQ’s shower head, and removed some sand that was clogging it. My next shower was a revelation. I’d forgotten just how good it could be. Water flows out of my shower now at a rate suitable for hand-washing a brontosauraus, or perhaps cooling a runaway nuclear reactor. My next step is to install a 250 gallon hot water heater. Once that is done don’t bother calling the HQ on weekends between 9:30 and noon: that’s shower time.