There is nothing like that new planner smell in the new year.

Once you’ve ripped the plastic off the planner, you can flip through the pages and start filling in all the adventures you have to look forward to in the coming year: birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, weddings, concerts, sporting events.  It's amazing how many wonderful things we have to anticipate each year... and then there is the anticipation of not yet knowing what might fill up the rest of your calendar for the year.  Will you receive an unexpected wedding invitation?  Maybe your friend will announce a pregnancy and you'll have a due date to add to your calendar? Maybe the family will finally have that reunion they’ve been talking about for five years?

And what about goal setting?  Are New Year's resolutions something you make?  There are arguments on both sides of the fence for whether resolutions should or shouldn't be made.  For what it's worth, here are my two cents... My overall goal in life is to be better every day than I was the day before.  If setting a goal at the start of a new year can help someone become better than they were previously, I'm all for it!