Patch Poll: Did You Make Any New Year's Resolutions For 2012?

Lose weight. Stop smoking. Get more exercise. Work harder. Work less hard. Be nicer. Less Facebook, more Twitter. Or vice versa.

The start of a new year is an invitation to create a list of changes we think would make us better people, or make us happier, healthier, or wealthier. While some people find the list useful and carry it out, many of us have discovered over the years that the well-intentioned resolutions kind of fizzle out as the pressures of the year mount and life intrudes.

Still, it's an interesting exercise.

Did you make a list of resolutions this year? Tell us what they were if you did - sometimes sharing your intentions can help bolster your ability to carry them out.

For the record, I made no list this year. I begin each morning with a list of my intentions for the day, finding that taking things a day at a time is more effective for me than trying to squeeze a year's worth of intentions into one list. But hey, that's just me. Let's hear from you.