Resolutions don’t work. If 41% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions and fewer than 9% achieve their goals by year’s end, how many people will move to Montana this year? Statistics often make absurd connections. Correlation is not causation. Causes of problems are usually much deeper, going far beyond observation. Dictionary definitions: New Year’s resolution: promise to do something different in the New Year resolve: to deal with successfully solution: an action or process of solving a problem The difference between promising to do something to create change and actually solving a problem lies somewhere between a person’s ears. A wise teacher said to me many years ago, “You behave…