Maine Voices: Reimagining New Year’s resolutions for 2021 Don’t berate yourself; act like your aspirations are already happening; put the ‘shoulds’ away, and be happy with small steps. By Caroline LevySpecial to the Press Herald Share The first time I put real thought into my New Year’s resolutions was the winter of 2018, my first winter in New York. I sat with my then-boyfriend, five months into our two-year studio lease, in the palatial Rose Main Reading Room in the central branch of the New York Public Library – a sacred space to me – and let my writing hand reveal what I didn’t realize was brewing beneath the surface.