For the new year, I have decided to sharpen up my decision-making process. The goal, as always, is complete infallibility. To that end, I am currently test-driving a new approach to screening incoming data. Here it is: never believe anything anyone says — ever.

I have high hopes for this new mindset. For starters, it relieves me from the need to listen to other people at all. I mean, if you aren’t going to trust whatever it is they’re going on about, why pay attention at all? No offense, but all that fact-checking was really chewing into my leisure time.

One still has to make choices, of course. But I am finding that, with dead reckoning and good, old-fashioned horse sense, one can do just fine — without all the messy second-guessing and self-doubt! Anyway, it’s working like a charm so far. I have plenty of free time, and life has become so much simpler.

If you have any thoughts about my breakthrough, please send along your input. I’ll ignore it, but you know, no offense.