In 2014, my world as I knew it ended – gradually at first, and then with abruptness. Some of it happened over the years prior in such a slow, stagnant way that I wasn’t fully aware of what was happening. Other parts happened so quickly that it was as though I was left behind and have only caught up years later.

If you combine the different studies out there about New Year’s Resolutions, the average number of people who achieve their resolutions each year is 8%. One way to read that is that a whopping 92% of us are big failures; the other way is that it shows that the problem is with the concept of New Year’s Resolutions themselves, not the people who set them.