New Year’s resolutions appear every January with the promise of immediate change. Eating better, exercising, saving money, working less, or living more calmly. The problem is not the resolution, it is the approach. They are set as big, abstract goals, disconnected from real life. They do not take fatigue, personal limits, or context into account. That is why they do not last. People do not fail, the approach does.

A useful resolution does not aim to transform you, it aims to adjust you. Something small, concrete, and manageable that fits into your daily life. Not changing your life, but changing one habit. Not doing it perfectly, but making it possible. When a resolution is understood this way, it stops being an annual pressure and becomes a practical decision. And this, even if it sounds less motivating, is the only thing that usually works.