Will Wilkinson lets everyone off the hook early:
A resolution is a contrived promise we make to ourselves, generally with corrective or remedial intent. Self-improvement through self-promising seems about as likely as making a million dollars writing checks to yourself. How many people are you anyway? Wanting to want or not want to do something is a pickle we can't trick ourselves out of by harder meta-wanting.
My New Year's resolutions here.
The Dish 