Writing Activity: What Didn't Work Last Year?

For our first activity of the new year, we thought about New Year's Resolutions. I suppose resolutions are a way to purge ourselves of one bad habit or another and try to start fresh. We thought we would write about what did not work over the past year--not necessarily what is wrong with us, individually, but, perhaps, what we expected would be different than how it turned out.

Anyway, here are a few attempts...