Sorry but I don't plan a year at a time.
All of my goal/plans are either quickly attainable ( I plan to go see the newest movie out in theaters, I plan to take my wife out on a date with out the kids) or take years to see to the end (I plan on having the mortgage paid off on my house by the time my kids get out of school, I plan on being CEO of the company that I work for)
I don't see the point of trying to set new goals at the beginning of a new year. Why not use the beginning of the new month, week, weekend, day, or hour. They are all equally significant in your life as the beginning of the New Year.
Why should you have to wait until a new year to set a new goal and why only give yourself a year to do something in? If it was really an important goal you would have set it the day you realized it was important to you and you wouldn't give up on it if you can't complete it in a year.