If you have not heard or seen the phrase "new year, new me," then you have clearly been living under a rock.

It's amazing because somehow the clock striking midnight and a new year beginning is the only thing that motivates people to want to change. It seems that no matter what else enters into their lives, the magic stroke of midnight on January first, suddenly brings them to change.

However, this change hardly lasts. The gyms are crowded for a bit, and then after Valentine's Day, it looks like a ghost town. Getting a dentist appointment in January is hard to find, but call in the middle of March, and you could go for a week in a row if you wanted. Whether it is a family illness, crazy work or class schedule or anything in between, life makes it hard to stick to and maintain our resolutions for the year.

When I was younger, I used to think that the ball dropping released some sort of magic confetti that made people want to go on the treadmill, but sadly I was wrong. People seem to think that a new year means that they can start over, but this thinking is extremely flawed. What about June 15th or August 28th or March 6th? I am just throwing out days here but how come we deemed January first as the only day to change?

2 Corinthians 5:17 says that "anyone in Christ is a new creation..." We wake up every day with the sins of yesterday washed away and a chance to be new. Instead of planning to wait until January first, why not change right now? Why not decide that each morning you are going to try to be better than the person you were yesterday. This way of thinking is much easier than setting a resolution and dealing with the inevitable guilt that comes when you don't complete it.

Make every day count, not just the first week of January.