Do you set New Year's Resolutions? I've found that they've become a bit of a punching bag. In a very unscientific survey of those around me, most people seem to have given up on setting resolutions. Most people pay lip service to working on their goals, but they rarely make concrete plans. Instead, they express vague desires to improve in the new year. Resolutions get dismissed as a waste of time. Why start when you're just going to give up on them? I get it. We've set resolutions and goals before. And we've disappointed ourselves by giving up or not following through. So why put ourselves in a position to fail … [Read more...]