Lose weight. Quit smoking. Spend less time online. Whatever you resolve to change this New Year’s Day, psychologists say you need a plan — not just a resolution. Resolutions are never a waste of time, insists John Norcross, a psychology professor at Scranton University and author of “Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing your Goals and Resolutions.” Norcross has tracked and studied resolutions for over 30 years. He says successful resolvers improve themselves in major ways and of

The holiday season is upon us, and with it come our hopes and aspirations for the new year. Many of us translate these lofty hopes and aspirations into a list of New Year’s resolutions. We resolve to exercise more and eat less, take on a new hobby and get rid of an old habit, spend more time with our loved ones and less time on the screen. Most of us are pretty good at making beautiful lists, describing all the ways in which we are going to be different from now on — proclaim