The No New Year's Resolution

Late December 2025, I opened my new 2026 planner. I was about to make my usual new year’s resolutions. I looked back at 2024 and 2025 and staring me in the face were the same resolutions I usually make – short-lived, abandoned and completely neglected. Can’t lie. I felt like a failure: undisciplined and weak-willed. 

I’m not alone. The average person maintains resolutions for 2-4 months with only six percent of people lasting the whole year. One reason is new year’s resolutions tend to be too big and overwhelming.

Why do we even make resolutions? Turns out we love a fresh start, a new beginning, and a chance to change and be better than we were. 

I am not making any new year’s resolutions. I am, however, making a new month resolution - for January only. This is different because when we start small, really small, we are more likely to commit. I’ve written some short, measurable goals on what I hope to achieve in January. Writing it down makes me forty percent more likely to commit, to remember and to achieve it. I won’t even think of February until we get there. My goals are small, trackable and doable. Instead of committing to finishing a novel or reading 12 books or losing 15 pounds, one of my small doable goals is to write one blog – for January only. This one. There! I did it! 

See you in February.

P.S. I’d love to know what your resolutions are. Drop me a line in the. You can comment right on this post. I’m cheering you on.