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[caption id="attachment_11810" align="alignnone" width="640"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Despite your best efforts, for most people, the end of January is that time when devotion to those resolutions start to slip. Maybe you promised yourself that you'd start working out but just can't figure out how to get started.

[caption id="attachment_11802" align="alignnone" width="831"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Someone has left (or they’ve been kicked out) and while you feel that your band still has potential, you need that void filled as soon as possible. But bringing someone new in can be exhausting, stressful and possibly fruitless.

[caption id="attachment_11822" align="alignnone" width="640"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Producer Sarah Koenig has yet to announce a launch date for the second season of Serial, the most-lauded podcast of 2014, but has confirmed that there will definitely be one. Unfortunately, just knowing that there will be another highly-addictive story, told week-by-week, doesn't exactly help fill the silence of your commute or your daily dog walks.

[caption id="attachment_11787" align="alignnone" width="640"] Image via Flickr[/caption] The principles of worker engagement have been used for many decades, as far back as the early 1900’s when Dale Carnegie focused his passion and interest on the power of personal development in order to create success in one’s business and personal life. This trend has continued to evolve over time with much interest generated in employee engagement in organizations, especially as the correlation between engagement and profit became credible.

[caption id="attachment_11781" align="alignnone" width="640"] Image via Flickr[/caption] I tell myself -- a lot -- that I need to stop watching so much TV. But I find it harder and harder to quit.

Like buying new exercise clothes to get your ass in gear for the gym, buying a new set of notepads, calendars and binders just makes you WANT to write things down and be that organized person you KNOW you can be. 

Whether you are a natural born scheduler, or a free-flowing tornado of cryptic messages on crumpled napkins, there are loads of clever options available to keep you organized (or at least, organized-looking) this year.

Brands and advertisers are forever trying to capture new and different demographics. Younger, more diverse, more male (or sometimes more female, depending on the product), more "urban" (or any other number of polite euphemisms that refer to the race or ethnicity they're trying to woo) -- whatever ways you divide up your personality, someone is trying to get you to buy something you wouldn't normally, according to their data, buy.