What's your New Year's resolution?

Lose weight, pay off debts, quit smoking, get a new job, find time to travel and enjoy life, volunteer, spend more quality time with loved ones. How often do we set resolutions, only getting as far as to say them aloud, or maybe even write them down, to review your year each December 31st and find, yes, the same resolutions still hanging over your head for the year to come?

Do you even make New Year's resolutions for yourself anymore?

We have an online survey on our homepage kpho.com and as I write this, with 264 people responding; 71% say they've given up, 19% say yes, but they never last and 11% said yes, and I stick to them. Kudos to those making up the 11%. Which has me wondering, what sets us all apart in resolving to do more with our lives in the New Year? Or perhaps, more appropriately, what keeps us from keeping our word to ourselves?

I say, YOU are your biggest obstacle. If will power is empowering yourself to carry out your own goals and wishes, it's understandably just as potent if you get it in your head for some reason your goals are impossible. I guess it's what they call the power of positive thought, with a little faith in yourself. And that's applicable to everything from sweating the small stuff to tackling the tougher vices.

Good luck to you and the loved ones in your life who'll no doubt be better off, with you bettering yourself.

Email me ncrites@kpho.com