If you ever want to drop an old habit, or take up a good one I would be right there encouraging you.  However if you are ready to grow and make an important change in your life you are ready or you are not.  That is why setting aside one day to make resolutions actually undermines your growth.  It militates against the critical fact you must realize that you have the need and capacity to constantly grow and change - every day.  It is not that there is anything wrong with the idea or sentiment behind your change; it is that you have a reason to quit or start (whatever the case may be) and you can say that it was just another new year’s resolution that didn’t stick.  Thus the current method of waiting for new years actually undermines real change.

 January first is an arbitrary date.  If history was a little different (the victors write history) this could be the middle of the year and thus as a day without the significance that it holds presently.  So, in reality, it is a day like all others.  What makes it special to you is that you realize there are changes to make in your life.  But the truth is there are changes to make in your life every day.  Every day you need to grow, and make changes, and by setting aside one day to do it you are actually undermining this critical process in your life. By making resolutions you are setting up the psychological conditions and climate to put change off to another year, like there is a relationship between the need for change and what day it is… and there is not!

 You are either ready or not.  You see the need for change in your life and you are either going to change or not - and thinking that the process is related to this or that day or event is setting yourself up for failure. 

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 The proper way to go about it is by living with a superior, rational and honest method.  First, THINK, find and understand the problem in the context of understanding that growth is a constant and you have the capacity to change.  Then understand that you can make a decision; to take CONTROL of your life through your thoughts.  This will settle your mind on the change.  Finally live your change through constant, unerring DISCIPLINE.  Change is hard work that starts in determining where you need to change and extends to actually bringing the change into your life.  But the Discipline, Thought and Control method is far superior to the usual way of Feel-Bad/Get-Resolved-And-Wait-For-New Years method (which is faulty and only assures failure).  The old method is not properly thoughtful, not rooted in your realization that you have the capacity to change, and devoid of proper discipline.

 I hope you succeed in the change you have decided to make.  But I would rather see you embrace constant change and use the Discipline, Thought and Control (DTC) method to bring about your resolution and in all areas of life.

 Live every day like it is new years and accept the constant growth and change in your life as normal, healthy and a critical part of life.