If you have big plans for the year, you want to turn them into actionable tasks to ensure they actually get done. One way to do this? Focus on one resolution a month.

Goals have been a central part of my personal, professional, and financial successes for as long as I can remember. I remember setting personal goals even as a child, such as personal summer reading challenges and savings goals, and that initiative has continued into adulthood.

Every year you set out determined to stick to your New Year’s resolutions. But year after year you fall off track and quickly abandon them. So why are resolutions so hard to keep?

Creating new, better habits is a challenge on its own, no matter how motivated you are. Check out these four common stages of habit building to identify where you are in the change process -- and push yourself through to the next step.

New Year's resolutions have a high potential to fail, and that can make the end of every year a huge bummer instead of a celebration. Don't stress over resolutions this year, and try these forward-thinking alternatives instead.

Is today the day you're going to start working out more often? Or are you just getting back to what you used to do before all the holiday parties messed with your schedule? Either way, it's time to get started. We've picked out six workouts that are perfect for your first (or second) day back.

As the new year kicks off, it's a great time to set new goals. If you're hoping to lose weight, work out, learn more, get a promotion, be more confident and finally organise your sock drawer, maybe you should just pick one or two at first.

Getting healthy and fit is the most common new year's resolution for most people. If you want to achieve that goal -- or any goal in the new year, psychologists recommend these three strategies.

Looking back on the past year can help you figure out where you want to spend your time and energy next year, whether that's continuing your successes or remembering lessons you learned from failure. Ask yourself these three questions for a look back.

How many of the New Year's resolutions that you made for 2015 did you actually stick with? I know my answer: not many, if any. That's the case for most people and yet it is still worth making some promises to yourself to lead a better life in 2016. So what's your New Year's resolution?