Most people who makes vows, new year resolutions and covenant without adequate planning ends up a failure, every man who add to their old success makes early plans ahead of time, new year is quite consuming of time, resources, man power and brain storming but simple plan steps can help, "like taking evaluation of your past", adjustment strategy, new innovation, source of new information and prickly business/investment gallon. If change is done earlier later times can not be much challenging and downcasting. Plan the dos and don'ts and work effectively with it, your next year is sure plug.
I am not here to discourage you and the readers but to tell you that we can't always have it our ways, and all those who failed trying are not idiots either, if you have a perfect plan it might still fail you.
I have get to the end of the road where I will never point finger to a man like myself and call them failure or lazy, everyone is a fighter trying so hard to make it, all I can say is keep failing because it will get you somewhere that no amount of failure can shake you anymore.
The only thing that will awaits you is victory at last, failure is not the problem, it is a progress, all you need is an extra lesson on each failure and you will get better at what you do.