New year's resolutions don't work. The resolutions are usually unreasonable ("I'll eat only healthy foods from now on") and external ("I'd like to be seen as a

New year's resolutions don't work. The resolutions are usually unreasonable ("I'll eat only healthy foods from now on") and external ("I'd like to be seen as a person who runs every morning"). If you have never achieved your resolution before, why would you succeed just because it's 2015? What happens when you fail the first time? Maybe start hating the challenge, or yourself, and quit? If the resolution is something you really cared about start doing it today. Keep the change modest ("go for a walk once a week" vs. "run every day") and accept the fact that you are going to fail every now and then. Joining a group with similar interests works if it makes the action more fun. Having someone to run with is good but having someone to punish you for not running isn't that useful.