New Year’s Resolution: More effort in blog titles

Finally, that crazy week between Christmas and New Year's day has almost come to an end. We will soon know what to do with ourselves again. Of course, like usual, I've thought of a few resolutions that I naively think I'll keep to, in the hope of becoming a better person. Not to mention, thinner.
But this has got me thinking – why is it that most of us fall into the 'new year, fresh start' routine, even though we know it never actually works? It's like when you're younger and you tidy your room. You think 'I'm going to keep it this tidy forever now'. Two weeks later you have a mountain of clothes and a skyscraper of books on the floor.
But if you've ever started January determined to keep to some new year's resolution because there's some aspect of your life that you're not happy with, why wait 'till the start of the year? I've been thinking, and I want to be more economical with my time, I want to be healthier, more sociable, take more chances, and mostly, I want to write more. However, why is that I'm waiting until the turn of midnight tomorrow to start my quest to becoming Alpha Jess?
I got asked yesterday 'what are your bad qualities?', and although I replied with a half-hearted 'I can be annoying...' I can think of a few more things I'm not happy with. If you really thought about it from an outside perspective, could you think of anything you'd want to improve on? And the millions of people that make an active effort on the 1^st of January to better themselves, if we can bullet point ways in which to become a better person, why don't we do it sooner?
If we know we could do more work, eat healthier, or manage our money better, then why don't we? Where is the line between the cost and benefit of bettering ourselves? I could graduate University with a First, it would mean literally dedicating every waking moment to doing work... I guess it's not impossible. But is it worth it? How much effort are you willing to put into bettering yourself? To me, the pleasure I get from eating chocolate will always outweigh the pleasure of being thin.
A new survey has revealed that in 2009, 6% of Britons stuck to a new year's resolution. It seems a bit hypocritical that many of us start the year with an aim of being healthy, but technically, when the clock strikes midnight, the majority of us are drunk.
I do like the idea of fresh starts, of new beginnings, of looking back at the past year and looking forward to the next. But why is it the January the 1^st is the day we do this? I give into chocolate every day, but in two days time I'll think to myself, 'Oh no, it's a new year, I'll have some fruit instead', (or fruit and nut chocolate, more likely).
Also, why is it that every year, I (and I'm sure I'm not alone here) fall into the same cycle, the novelty of the new year wears off after a week and I'm back to choosing Facebook over essays and I've crawled back into my unsociable, lazy ways once again. But I never seem to learn. Someone once defined insanity to me as 'someone who does the same thing over and over again, without doing anything differently, expecting to get different results'. If this is true, however, I think a safe assumption to make is that we're all insane.
Well, happy new year and all that, readers, and if anyone has any of that disgusting tasting nail polish they'd like to lend me I'd be greatly appreciative....oh the joys ahead in 2010...