If you're determined to change your life, January first is probably a good day to do it, right? There are myriad reasons that New Year's Day is possibly the worst day to initiate big changes. We do it because we've bought into the idea that a new year is new, and will somehow be different from the previous year. But the date is just an agreed-upon starting point for a new calendar. Then we added all this holiday merriment to that date for no real reason other than we like to party. You see where this is going? It's become a cliche that whatever New Year's resolution you make, it will fail hard and fast when that calendar goes into effect. Maybe it would be better to just set a goal for the new year, and assign random dates for smaller goals that will add up to a major change over the year. That being said, Ryan George (previously at Neatorama) gets the point about New Year's resolutions across in a much shorter and funnier fashion.