I'm a huge fan of using the new year as a time to reflect on the previous year and re-evaluate your goals moving forward. It's important to not just set goals but to quantify what success in these endeavors looks like. "Read more" should be something like "Read a chapter per night of TCP/IP Illustrated" or "Read one career-oriented book for every sci-fi book I read this year".
I know this is more work and some goals can be surprisingly hard to quantify, but the pay-off and satisfaction is far greater.
To that end, I saw a post on /r/DecidingToBeBetter linking to http://yearcompass.com/. It's 100% free and well-worth your time. Follow their advice; print it out, find somewhere quiet, pour a drink, and give it three hours of your time.