When you make a New Year’s Resolution, you should ask yourself whether you really are resolved to change. It is all too easy to intend to change, but not really commit to the process of change. And change is a process that takes hard work.

Can technology help us change? Yes, if we’re serious about it. But it takes a willingness to be held accountable for the hard work of changing, whether it be a bad habit or a new discipline. One idea would be to set up a page where people could enter their new year resolves and an eMail. The web site would then track those for 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months. At the end of that time, it could send out an email reminder to help reinforce the change. That way, people could hold themselves accountable to really change.