Dear Maggie,

I don’t know what good New Year’s Resolutions do anyone! I seem to make the same ones every year, and every year I break them all. I’ve already blown it and it’s only the first week of 2010. If there’s a way to make this work, I haven’t found it. Have you?

Signed,

Resolved to Fail

Dear Resolved,

You, my friend, are a self-fulfilling prophecy. You stated your main problem in your own signature. Resolve to Fail. You’ve already decided you won’t succeed, and by doing so, have made it your own success impossible.