Happy 2013!Most people I know don’t even make New Year’s Resolutions anymore, and when they do - they are perfunctory and amorphous. I will lose weight, I will exercise more, I will grow wings and fly like a bat.But these are all as unlikely as they are amorphous, and they are unlikely because they are amorphous. I, for example, have had a long standing goal to walk 10,000 steps. This can sometimes (or quite often) be a challenge in Seattle when it’s often drizzly and cold. In July, I crush my goal! But I can’t have a yearly goal in one month.When we make resolutions that are difficult to achieve, we do really well at them for a while and then something happens - the weather changes or we get sick or we go on a trip. That breaks the flow of the resolution and we stop doing it. We try to do it from time to time, but that’s not quite the same.I’ve seen people be very successful at small New Year’s Resolutions like “this year I will clean the garage” because these resolutions are easy to grasp, schedule for, and complete.We can only complete our New Year’s goals if they are (a) a small project that we can focus on and complete or (b) a new habit we can intelligently weave into our daily lives. So here at Personal Kanban we have two recommendations we’ll talk about today, one is the Kaizen Resolution, the other is Small New Years Projects.And if you are wondering, I waited until after the first to write this because I figured that about now people would be like ... well, I made the resolution .. now what?