The Havens does not usually make New Year’s Resolutions. It is an artificial beginning, the start of the Gregorian Calendar. When I was a girl, my Baha’i family celebrated Naw Ruz, which was the Baha’i New Year and occurred on the Vernal Equinox.
To my naive child eyes, it made a lot more sense to celebrate the new year when the rest of nature was celebrating it, as the deep snows of winter began to melt and buds began to swell. Well, at least that was happening down in Boulder. Up in the mountains at 8411 feet elevation, spring was distant glimmer of hope. We were still skiing and sledding and ice skating. But no matter.
I was over at Charlotte’s Web, and she had a list of resolutions that made a lot of sense to me. Actually, they seemed more like stated goals than resolutions, but, as someone famous once said, “What’s in a name?”
Anyway, she inspired me to renew my “Books I Have Read” report. I did this in 2007 (was it really four whole years ago???), and started to do it in 2008 but quit when I got so far behind that I gave up and deleted the whole page.
So, check it out. Up in the right corner under “Pages”.
the havens 
like you, i don’t ‘resolve’, but it certainly makes a convenient ‘pinning point’ when you work from a calendar year… can’t commit to an extensive book list, but agree it is always a good idea to try to read more – and anything you can do to push yourself in that direction is a good thing!
It’s not so much as trying to push myself to read more. I read all the time and am well known to the library staff. I want to keep track of what I’ve been reading.
And yes, the calendar that “everybody” uses makes it convenient to arrange dates and it is a good pinning point for progress. I have a lunar calendar too, which is actually arranged in lunations with the gregorian dates next to the moon phases. I like having that one around.
I enjoyed keeping track for a couple of years toom but let it slip last year.
there are so many “things to do” sometimes you just have to let some of it slide. Of course, when you let the housekeeping slide, it becomes a bear if you ever want to get it straightened up again. Which is what happened to my 2008 book list. So I abandoned it.