Better believe it — this is gonna be your year

SO that’s it then. All over. All you have to look forward to now is watching your New Year’s resolutions float off and pop like empty bubbles, one by one, so that in another few weeks you will be paying for a gym membership that will remain unused until you figure out a way of legally extricating yourself from it without incurring a mortgage-sized penalty.

Those juice detox books will be heaped together and used as a handy step to reach the biscuit cupboard, and your Introduction to Mandarin will remain ... unintroduced.

But maybe that’s terribly cynical. Maybe this year really will be the one where you become the person you have always believed yourself to be.