New Year's Resolutions

People change in stages. They go from not even really considering making a change,
to contemplating making one, ​to preparing to make the change…and THEN (and only then) do they spring into action. The actual behavior change (like starting to exercise, or going on a diet) is not the first stage of change, but the fourth.

Here’s the long and the short of it: To be successful in a New Year’s Resolution, you need to be in that fourth stage of change. What stage are you in?

(Prochaska and DiClemente)