Personalized New Year’s Resolutions: Build Habits That Actually Stick

Most New Year’s resolutions fail because they don’t fit real life. This AI-powered prompt helps you create personalized, realistic resolutions—and turn them into habits you can actually stick with.
Personalized New Year’s Resolutions: Build Habits That Actually Stick

What this does

This guide helps you use AI to create realistic, personalized New Year’s resolutions—and turn them into simple habits you can actually maintain. Instead of generic goals or all-or-nothing plans, this prompt helps you design resolutions that fit your real life, energy level, schedule, and personality.

Why it's useful

Most New Year’s resolutions fail because they’re vague, unrealistic, or copied from someone else’s idea of “self-improvement.” This prompt uses AI to help you slow down, get specific, and build habits that work with your lifestyle instead of against it—so progress feels doable instead of overwhelming.

Use This Entire Prompt:

Before you use it, just remember:

  1. Copy the entire prompt in italics below (use the button)
  2. Paste into Notepad, Word, Docs, or your favorite text editor
  3. Personalize all [brackets]
  4. Paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, or your favorite AI app
  5. Run the prompt
Prompt

I want help creating personalized New Year’s resolutions and turning them into habits I can realistically maintain. Here is my information:
- Areas I want to improve: [health, finances, relationships, home, work, mindset, habits]
- My past experience with resolutions: [never stick, sometimes stick, usually quit by February, mixed]
- My current energy level: [low / medium / high]
- Time I can realistically commit each day or week: [minutes or hours]
- Biggest obstacles I face: [motivation, time, consistency, stress, health, burnout]
- What success would actually look like for me this year: [describe in plain language]

Please help me by:

  1. Creating 3–5 personalized resolutions written in realistic, judgment-free language
  2. Breaking each resolution into a small, repeatable habit
  3. Suggesting a “minimum version” of each habit for low-energy days
  4. Identifying likely failure points and how to recover without quitting
  5. Creating a simple weekly check-in routine I can follow
  6. Offering encouragement that focuses on progress, not perfection

Keep everything practical, flexible, and designed for real life—not ideal life.

How this helps you

Instead of starting the year with pressure or guilt, you start with clarity and momentum. You build habits that fit your life as it is today—making it far more likely you’ll still be moving forward when February (and real life) arrives.

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