Are you getting ready to write out your New Year's resolutions for 2022? You have probably heard the standard advice about making New Year's resolutions stick—make them realistic and make yourself accountable to others. Checklists can make your resolutions not just smart but intelligent by helping you articulate the precepts of resolution-making and ensuring that your plan will work. In essence, the new year's checklist method of goal-making is simply breaking down each resolution with a checklist of steps that will help you achieve the overarching goal. Every company should make a year-end checklist that will include activities like confirming employee information, making sure you record all paychecks, looking up time-off balance, determining benefit changes, and more.