Resolving to do something new?

from lifehack dot org  (click title for article)

My suggestion is this: that you make sure you ask yourself all the other questions, deliberately and carefully, before even considering the “how” of anything, whether the ways be simple or not. Try this sequence:

What are the issues facing you in your life? Have you thought about them carefully enough to put them into some order of priority, assuming that tackling them all at once is likely to be more than you can handle? Are you clear about exactly what they are? Do you understand them as fully as possible?