Where are you?
You can't leave some place you've never admitted to having been. As you affirm your goals for the New Year, consider the equally important task of taking an inventory of where you are.
• Do you have a spending problem that manifests as credit card debt?
• Is there an addiction or some other "shiny object" that you use to escape reality?
• Has a lack of discipline shown up as extra weight or a refusal to exercise?
• Is there a difficult conversation you've put off, producing resentful tolerations?
• Are you inclined to try to fix others instead of yourself?
Before you create elaborate goals and make resolutions, admit to what is so in your life and your practice. Ignoring it, resisting it or looking past it isn't fooling anyone. Especially you.
Before you can get from Point A to Point B, you must be certain where Point A is.