I have a love-hate relationship with New Year’s Resolutions. I love making them. I hate failing to keep them. The concept is great, but the execution always seems to run into a little problem called February. Perhaps you can relate?

In “Skip Resolutions in 2019—Make a Rule of Life,” Jeremy Linneman offers timely counsel for those of us who, as we peer into the year ahead, are simultaneously excited and disillusioned. But what if we reimagined the whole thing? What if we shifted our focus on discrete goals to a more durable focus on rhythms and commitments? What kinds of spiritual health might that yield?