If you get to the heart of the matter, New YearB次元官网网址檚 resolutions are all about one thing: Changing whatB次元官网网址檚 negative in our lives for whatB次元官网网址檚 positive.

We often tell stories about people who decide theyB次元官网网址檙e determined to change their ways.

January is a good month for those in the fitness business and a bad time to be selling any of the various vices that so many of us pledge we can to do without.

Of course, most of these personal promises are doomed to fail. ThereB次元官网网址檚 more to adopting a new lifestyle than simply switching wall calendars.

Popular resolutions often involve our personal health, our relationships or our career. We tell ourselves we will eat less, sleep more and cut down on smoking, drinking and salty foods, that we will be more caring about others and spend less time with people who only seem to bring us down. WeB次元官网网址檒l get promoted or find a new job or go back to school.

These are all noble goals that help make early January such an optimistic time. TheyB次元官网网址檙e also all attainable if you can avoid the disappointment that can come when youB次元官网网址檙e focused solely on the short term.

Remember: thereB次元官网网址檚 nothing wrong with aiming high as long as you donB次元官网网址檛 expect too much too soon.

Take for example those who decide to take up running as a way to improve their health. If youB次元官网网址檝e been a couch potato chances are you wonB次元官网网址檛 be running in any spring marathons.

If you listen to those who teach beginning runners, sometimes the best goal is to just get out even if that means more walking then running.

It takes time to develop new habits.

But once you do they can be tough to break, which is why you might as well choose the habits you really want.

Change will happen. On a personal level, the next step is always the first one you need to take to get a little closer to whatever goal you set.