People who are able to make life change have a sufficient dose of clarity, confidence, courage and commitment. Those four ingredients can make all the difference between a miserable life and a brilliant one.

In the end, resolutions can be empty, unfulfilled promises filled with regret. Or, they can be enlivening, motivating goals that help you be all you want to be in life and work. It's up to you which path you'll take.

In our culture, people believe that if you're an artist or do deeply creative work, you will inevitably struggle financially, and that there is a "rightness" to that struggle. In other words, it is believed that if you're rolling in money, and money flows easily to you, then you're not spiritually evolved.