New years' resolutions don't really work for 2 reasons:

• You're in survival mode so a year-long project is impossible to keep up, you're living from one day to the next or paycheque-to-paycheque.

Or,

• You're doing well enough to think of long time horizons. Likely then you have many medium- to long-term goals on the go, and you don't have to start them in the new year.

I find myself luckily in the latter case. I'll take the new year as a chance to evaluate where I am with my goals and adjust priorities, if needed.