There's an invitation, and a trap, in the making of new year resolutions.The invitation - exercising your capacity for imagination. Dreaming up what you might commit yourself to, what you can create, and the many possibilities you might bring into the world.The trap - having your happiness and fulfillment depend upon realising them. Setting up an ongoing comparison between how life is and how you think it's meant to be.The way of imagination can beckon you into life. The way of comparison leads to guilt, resentment, the harshness of inner critic, and defensiveness - surefire ways of disengaging from the possibilities that life has to offer.Perhaps what 2014 is asking of you, in any case, is unknowable from here, on this transition point we call New Year. And what's needed most is your presence, your openness to life, and your preparedness to be surprised.