New Year's Notions

I was putting the Christmas tree ornaments away today while I was listening to Mischke on the radio. He was talking about New Year's Resolutions and how he preferred a milder term like New Year's Notions. He said you feel like such a failure if you don't stick to a resolution but if you're working with notions it doesn't hurt so much to fail. Like, I have a notion to stop drinking coffee, stop yelling at my children, and give up TV for a year.