I remember in one OD course I attended they said to remember that "all boundaries are arbitrary."  How we respond to the calendar rolling over to a new year, etc. is someone strange.  After all, time is continuous, not discrete.

So rather than thinking about goals & objectives for 2010, think about them for tomorrow.  Then tomorrow, think about them for the next day, etc.  That doesn't mean that having longer-term goals isn't useful, but at the rate of change of today's world, one must be really flexible.  And continuous improvement means every day, not just every year.

As others have said, imagine that you improved by 1% every day.  What would the impact be in 6 months?  Huge!