I choose to be healthy and happy.

Choosing sounds like one decision, made once, with conviction behind it. It's closer to a few dozen small votes a day, most of them cast without any drama at all.

The stairs or the lift at four in the afternoon when you're already tired. Whether to open the fridge one more time or just go to bed.

Any single one of these barely registers, which is the good news — no single one can wreck it either. Whatever you picked an hour ago, there's another vote coming shortly.