In the last 75 years I remember making New Years resolutions about three times, for a total of five resolutions, as I recall.

Out of those, I only kept one, made 42 years ago: To love my (then brand-new) wife the rest of my life. That was an easy one to keep, and the rest I think were made because I knew what I ought to be resolving to do. And those "oughts" aren't highly motivating.

The moral of this story, boys and girls, is that if you need to make a resolution to bring something about, it's unlikely you'll keep it. If it's something you'd do anyway, you probably can and will.

Dave Oesterreich