I'm 78, going to be a year older in March.
It's easy, and fun, to try to make, or imagine, the new year better than the old one, but, the fact is, and it took me years, decades, to learn this, not just know it, but to feel it in my being... each day is the start of a new year.
The New Year, a fun thing to think about and celebrate, is just a date on a calendar arbitrarily drawn up by long-dead humans who did not understand it themselves.
If you want to be "better", start tomorrow... the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, etc. Any day can be the start of a new future.
You will make mistakes, you will take two steps forward and one back, but, you can keep moving towards your goals.
You don't need a new calendar year, or even a calendar, to get started.
Happy New Year... day, week, month, year... life.
Donovan Baldwin