New Year's Resolutions are an age old tradition that has some origin roots as far back as the Mideastern Babylonian era (around 4-5,000 years ago). Obviously, people have been ringing in the New Year with new promises and grandiose ideas of a new beginning for hundreds upon hundreds of years. So what is so spectacular and significant about a New Year's resolution? 
Honestly, not much. You stay up all night and watch the clock change, the ball drop and the confetti fly and then you go to bed on the first hour of the first day of a new year. Its only a day. Its only a moment in time. What is the big deal?
The Big Deal is whatever YOU make of it! You can have a new start in the middle of the year (you do not get a "do over" for the whole year but you can change whenever YOU commit to it and decide it is important . When you decide it is time for change - then it is time for you to do something about it!
I think that may be some of the significance of a New Year's Resolution... You take some time and reflect upon the last year and all of its events and work through what you think should be different this next year. When I do it - I try to spend some time praying and asking God to remind me and to refocus me.
I want to be reminded of what went well, what didn't and what were good choices and what were bad ones. I want to learn from the good and the bad of my past and then make some course adjustments for the future.
That is how I refocus - small adjustments, incremental steps toward a long term goal.
That is what New Year's resolutions are made of... That is how you move forward, how you grow and how you develop as a better leader! Not huge sweeping turns but personal evaluations and honest reflections to make small changes that will produce huge results when you stick with it over time.
That is why we make a New Year's Resolution or any other resolution!
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