The New Year began on January 1st (Gregorian calendar), it begins again on February 12th (lunar calendar), and again on April 14th (Sinhalese tradition) — the list goes on.
We invented the symbolic day of new beginnings.
If you committed to making an important change on New Year's day, it’s not the New Year that gave you permission — it’s you deciding to reinvent yourself, just like it is you who decides when the New Year begins.
Change is (and always has been) your invention.