Your new year’s resolutions are dead. It’s January 14, and you’ve already refashioned your new treadmill as a conveyor belt to get food from your kitchen to your couch without getting up. You failed. But that's fine. It happens to everyone. Except probably Ryan Seacrest, it happens to everyone. It's just human nature, which means it's something we all have to overcome. The enthusiasm of making a plan has been lost to the harsh realities of actually making it happen. We see it in our city all the time as well. This year we're going to destroy blight, alleviate poverty, and end chronic homelessness. We enthusiastically attend meetings with fun "action steps" spelled out at the end. But like our new year’s resolutions, that eagerness doesn't survive, and we finish with a low plan-to-action ratio. That's a problem because we've made a lot of plans for the future of our city: