Listening to your emotions is important, as the article states. But there is something more even more important - the schedule. Why make new year resolutions?

Listening to your emotions is important, as the article states. But there is something more even more important - the schedule. Why make new year resolutions? It is known to be inefficient and fail-prone. My personal method : make "whatever month it is" resolutions, with a timeframe - and don't do that on the first day of the month only. For ex, in february I may make some february resolutions, which will have a different timeframe (ex: some will be evaluated at t+1 in march, some at t+4 in june, etc). I may add another batch of resolutions in any given day of the month - I just file them under a month since it's easy to remember. This also enables many cycles of resolutions in a given year, which is useful in case some of them haven't been held - it won't be too late in april to set new resolutions. Track them using metrics, and have clear "next steps", then it's not really complicated. Using last year as an example, I have had a failure rate of ~25%, which I consider very acceptable. Think "release early, release often", or compare waterfall/iterative/agile methods, figure out which is better, and apply it to your life.