If you can't shake the urge to resolve come New Year's, think hard about what's motivating you.  Is it guilt?  Let's say you resolve to be nicer to your nasty, truculent neighbor.  Why would you do that?  If the neighbor didn't deserve your wrath, you wouldn't deliver it upon him.  Resolve instead to tell him what an unfun creature he is.  Maybe he'll be the one to change.

Michael Segell, MSNBC, This year, resolve not to resolve.