At the beginning of a New Year, almost everyone makes promises to themselves about what they’ll do differently, but most break those promises very soon after they make them. If you want to be different from the majority of people and have a blessed and prosperous New Year for real, read this.

When the prophet Habakkuk was struggling to sort through his feelings about why God allowed suffering to continue, the Lord told Him to write down his questions and God’s answers (Habakkuk 1). In the prophet’s case, recording his Q&A with God was to help the Israelites. In our case, when we write things down, the process impacts and benefits us.