Make your 5 commitments now. I will start with:
A) 52 rides of over one hour - commuting doesn't count
B) Replace the Wedge body on my TVR to a 50s/60s sports car look
C) Get the skills area built in Southampton Sports Centre
D) Do some jumps without feeling scared
E) Don't by another bike unless one of the current lot seriously breaks
I want to do the C2C from Walney Island to Whitby - 2 days and lovely scenery
Get fit enough to do the above
ride the CRC Marathon events at a better level
learn to ride switchbacks properly
learn to accept that my life is actually pretty alright 
1) Ride more (not just to work)
2) Continue training and build kickboxing club
3) Getback fitness I had 2 years ago
4) Support family through wife's stroke treatment
5) Learn to love my job
I've got seven.
1. The Haute Route stage 1
2. The Haute Route stage 2
3. The Haute Route stage 3
4. The Haute Route stage 4
5. The Haute Route stage 5
6. The Haute Route stage 6
7. The Haute Route stage 7
Or you could argue I've just got one.
1. Learn to enjoy riding in the rain.
2. learn to enjoy riding in the cold.
3. Learn to clean my bike after every ride.
4. Wash the car more often.
5. Start racing again.
1. Passportes du soleil
2. Not swap motorbikes
3. Commute (17 miles e/w) 30+ times
4. Roger the wife more than 12 times 
1. Learn to drive (boring, but I am 28 and relying on the trains/buses is starting to grate).
2. Sportives - NoFuss Glen Coe sportive in under 6 hrs, Bealach Beag in under 2:45, Cairngorm Classic in under 5. Not massively ambitious times but given my sporadic approach to training I'll be happy if I manage them.
3. Munros - I don't want to commit to a number because that sort of approach seems to preclude some good routes, although doing another 50 odd to reach 100 is reasonable. Certainly want to do Cruachan via the northern ridge, the Bridge of Orchy hills from Gorton bothy, the Lochaber Traverse to Nevis, and maybe the ridge from Victoria Bridge to Starav, with Trilleachain thrown in the next day if I have time.
4. Camping - One big two week-er with the rucsac, starting Glenfinnan and finishing where-ever the weather and the hills dictate, preferrably Torridon.
5. Move to Vancouver (the wheels are in motion already). 
Edit: Thinking about it, saving for #5 would realistically make reaching 100 munros a bit optimistic. Lets say 80. Edit edit: Or maybe just 75..
13FM,
Wow on no. 5! Might make no.3 a bit trickier, even if you manage no. 1... Good luck with all of them.
I've only one goal so far - Raid Alpine in July (=hottest time of the year = planning fail).
Other, more nebulous, goals involve not being so miserable and negative.
Ski off piste all day
Ride better, especially over jumps
And some other stuff I won't share here.
If it happens Stuartie, if! Just need to keep her interested via skype for another 7 months, and hope the invitation remains open! 
Can't say I'd noticed the negativity, you obviously keep it off the bike anyway. Need to grab a hill or two with you in the new year.
Less alcohol
More sex
Learn to meditate
Eat better
Ride more
1. take more care of myself/give my depression a damn good kicking 2.ride my bike more often (in all weathers 
3.practice the guitar daily 4.see my friends more often 5.have a bike holiday (haven't had a holiday for 18 years
1) Do a 24h race (I've never done one... or any race for that matter).
2) Swap the P7 for a 100mm travel steel hard tail (R8 maybe?).
3) Save some money (no.2 might ruin that... also not having a job might ruin that).
4) Learn to read music.
5) Try to keep the fitness I have from cycling round NZ (2 months to go, back in UK in March).
6) Oh yeah, get a job when I come back (please look after the economy until then!).
Happy new year by the way (it's 2012 already over here!).
1: Ride as much as I have this year (>10m / day on average)
2: Ride a long distance route in the UK - quite fancy the Trans Pennine Trail - Hull back to Liverpool maybe?
3: Yoga and weights at least once a week
4: Get (and stay) under 13 stone
5: Keep my chin up & head straight(er)
Here's to 2012. Happy New Year STWers.
1. Stay fit and healthy. No more CFS/PVF/ME or whatever it is/was, that can piss off for good!
2. Do the "teenage rebellion" I never did when I was younger. Already started this one, plan to continue and enjoy it some more! 
3. Ride my road bike more. I actually enjoy it every time I get out on it, but strangely struggle with the motivation to get on it.
4. Learn more natural trails. I've got a bit bored with either riding laps of a trail centre, or being led by other people. Last year started to take a stand, and made sure I learnt a couple of routes round my normal riding spot, and have furthered that slightly this year. But I want to get to the point where any one of say 6 or 8 riding spots near to where I live, I am the go to man to lead a ride. Don't know why, I just like it, perhaps it's cos it makes me feel useful, I don't know...
5. Be more selfish... Might sound crazy to a lot of people, but I know because I genuinely go out of my way for a lot of people I consider to be friends, they end up taking the piss cos it becomes the norm and they expect it. My ex GF, lovely as she was, I went out of my way right at the start of our relationship for her so much, that basically within a few weeks, it was expected of me to be her personal chauffeur for free, anywhere and everywhere, including to work and back (20 miles each way) before I went to work myself! I'm just gonna focus on looking after number 1, if my plans fit in with helping someone else out then fair enough, but otherwise I ain't going out of my way any more...
Give up the stw
Probbly have a poo.
Mboy,that sounds spot on, strength to you.
1) Commute 3 times a week.
2) 1 4hr + ride in a different county per month.
3) Not eat like I'm some sort of athlete.
4) Do more of the things I love.
1. Double century
2. LeJog
3. Walk the Knoydart Munros, and potentially the Glen Shiel ones
4. Go to Australia
5. Give up beer for at least three months
1) Move to California.
2) Learn to like North American trails...
3) Get certified in frame building.
4) Figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
5) Keep a tidy house.
Lose another 2 stone. (2 off so far).
Debating if I could realistically go the whole year with one gear...and fully rigid...
takisawa2 - I'm rigid all day long. Suck my cog.
1. Get a driving license.
2. Sleep more.
3. Eat less.
4. Tidy up my flat.
5. Sort out BSOD - well I think I have ...
Drop another stone.
Save money for my trip to the alpes.
Be more organised.
Throw the credit card in the bin and pay it off.
Spend more time with the girlfriend.
Get rid of my full sus and go back to relative basics with a hardtail.
Get back into road biking and bmx.
Lose the rest of the weight I need to.
Beat this years bike mileage (about 1000).
Bike holiday, probably Wales.
1) ride my bikes enough so that the cost/ride drops to a sensible amount. It's still in treble figures so far on the soda... 
2) get my climbing fitness back (strained tendons in my back last Feb and it all went to rat shit by June), lead HVS and 6b on sight, hopefully lead an E1 by any means!
3) get some more munros done, only managed 2 new ones last year (and only 4 or 5) outings in total.
4) sort out my general eating and exercise habits (the above should help!) to get the weight back under control.
5) stop buying stuff I don't really need or use sufficiently, spend more wisely and learn to live within my (reduced) means. I need to stop dipping in to the savings for non-essentials or it'll be frittered away before I know it.
And I haven't even got to the play my guitars more and regularly. They are not ornaments you know...
Happy New Year Everyone
1) No more new bikes (cunningly agreed terms on a new to me frame yesterday so that one doesn't count!)
2) Get into med school
3) Save lots of money for med school, number 1 might help that (and if I don't get in then I have lots of money for a new bike )
4) Work hard to get back on the bike properly, and record my miles for the year when I do
5) Improve my diet - less cakes/sugar/fizzy drinks etc.
1. Spend less time on here.
I'm going to copy squidlord - well apart form the meditate bit...
Less alcohol
More sex
Learn to meditate
leave my "corporate nonsense" job and start my own business
Eat better
Ride more
Looking at all these makes my list seem so inadequate.
Mine was simply
1) Push my riding skills up a few notches.
2) Buy a couple of Kayaks and start kayaking.
3) Embrace my cynicism and accept that it's who I am.
Not really revolutionary but it'll do.
1. Get below 14 stone
2. Ride every stane.
3. Get a few 80+ mile rides done
4. Get out few 2/3 day outings done.
1. Put some good weight back on.
2. Cycle as least as much as during 2011.
3. Stick with my reduced alcohol intake.
Not NY resolutions as such, but plans/ intentions
1/ Get out and do more in general
2/ Start riding my bikes again
3/ Get organised
4/ Remember how to enjoy life
5/ Ride the Way of the Roses cycle route
1-4 are all a depression thing, for the last few years I've been popping pills to control it but the down side of them is I have absolutely no inclination what so ever to do anything over than sleep and go to work, this year that will change
5 will show me I managed it
5. Move to Vancouver (the wheels are in motion already).
I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with this.
1) ride my bike. a bit.
2) er, that's it really. keep on keeping on, as they say
move to Vancouver would be nice but knowing my luck the Cascadia fault would unzip a week after I got there
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