I've never really kept up on a new years resolution. If/when I started one, by June I surely had already forgotten about it, so whether or not I succeeded is beyond me. Other times, clearly I failed. Last year I had a resolution to quit smoking. It worked for 2 months, but I started up again.

A friend of mine once said "I have fulfilled my new years resolution for 10 years now" and when I questioned how he managed that, he said his new years resolution 10 years ago was to no longer have new years resolutions, thus, fulfilling his original new years resolution to no longer have them, every year.

I like this approach, so I'm going to run with it this year. That way I never "fail" at fulfilling a new years resolution again.

On a more serious note, I've chosen to just be more goal oriented and my goals and deadlines have nothing to do with the new year. Goals tend to change for me quite often. There's not enough time in the day for me to do everything that I would like to do in a day, so it's hard to stick to any specific set of goals throughout the entire year.