what gives*

I don't think I'm imagining this: as I have gotten better at getting myself to write, I have gotten worse at getting myself to go to the gym, or to stop eating cookies once I've started, or to do the laundry.  What is this, some law of conservation of self-control that I've accidentally discovered?  Push one thing down and another pops up.  This is not news.

(Garfield minus Garfield)

* Not a question, note—rhetorical or otherwise.