Found your blog when I searched for “2010″ on Twitter. Your 2010 pic came up, so I clicked through to your blog. Sounds like a very ambitious year ahead!

I haven’t made New Year resolutions for a long time, instead choosing to work on projects that run for days, weeks or months but that I don’t only think up when the New Year comes along.

If you want to achieve most if not all of your resolutions, I strongly recommend a more frequent review. If you get to December and haven’t done anything, there’s not much you can do about it, and it’ll seem like a failed year. But if you review your progress every 2-4 weeks, at least you can track your progress and make changes if some of the resolutions aren’t working out. Maybe even setting a clearer deadline for each objective would be worth considering – for instance, write a song by March 1st. Setting very long timelines for your resolutions increases the likelihood that most of them will be forgotten. Actually, I’m a composer myself, so if you need any tips just let me know.

What jumped out at me was this:

“Last year, I didn’t manage to consistently eat better or sleep more sensibly, so these resolutions are carried forward. It’s well worth continuing to work on those fundamental things.”

I stay up too late so I know where you’re coming from. But why do you think these resolutions didn’t work out? What are you going to do differently to make them happen this year?

I hope you don’t mind me writing this comment – I’m just trying to share some things that I discovered after making the same resolutions for several years running and never achieving any of them. If you look at one of the latest posts on my blog (“What I achieved in 2009″) you’ll see I did a lot last year. And I do have goals for this year. But I try to keep my list fairly short so I stand a better chance of success.

Hope this helps, Happy New Year.

Ben