New Year Resolutions are a weird thing... 

On the one hand, it is a tradition of setting goals for yourself for the new year. On the other, it is a recipe for setting yourself up for failure if you don't achieve those goals.  Then there is always the option of not making any resolutions. How many times have we said to ourselves: "My resolution is to not make any resolutions"?  It seems like we already accepted that we are such failures that we can't even commit to something, because we already KNOW we are going to fail.

"If you see me on the road, slay me"

I'm paraphrasing because I have a horrible memory, but I'm pretty sure Buddah said it to his followers... It means that if you are concentrating to hard on being a buddist you are missing the point.   Sometimes I feel that if we concentrate too much on whether or not we will meet our resolutions, we miss the point...  The point is that it gives us a chance to reflect and "steer the ship of our lives"... I look at resolutions now as a guide post - not something to achieve or fail at... It makes the whole thing a lot more pleasant.