Resolutions and Other Annoyances

I'm too dinged right now to make any resolutions, let alone keep them other than one: I will not go on any more diets.
I've taken classes on setting financial goals and other goals but I just don't get it. My stepfather was also talking to me about economic stuff like the real estate market and how it affects other financial things like employment rates and it was news to me.
I wonder how much I am ignorant of. Probably a lot.
I am envious of families in which such information and skills are taught. This is just a part of an overall regret of the way I've lived my life and despair at some things over which I have no power that stand in the way of my fulfilling some educational and financial goals. These goals are vague at best but still there, dying slowly every day.