Mostly they are failed resolutions, doomed the moment we make them. Instead of making a ton of false promises, open your insides up to the presence of God. Epiphany, after all, is a showing forth and what you and I have to give each other and the world comes from God through us. That is a wonderful gift to bring. But we cannot do it like Herod trying to hold on to selfishness and our egos.
Beginnings are always fearful.
That is why we fear death, not because death is the end of something we know and love, but rather because it is a start, the beginning of something about which we know nothing. The end of one year, a decade, a millennia, a life a world, must mean the beginning of something new. At the heart of Christian life is God. This is the belief that God is the heart of all things and in Jesus Christ we have one who will stay with us in every end and every new beginning. He bids us to follow him across fearful boundaries and into the day that follows the night.