Paying Homage to the Old Year While the New Year is Still New
101 Wonderful Things? Start Counting Right around now, most people are looking ahead to the New Year. But I like to look backward, too. Winter in general, and January in particular, are ideal times for reflection. For many …
Who Says it’s a New Year?
There’s Not Just One New Year’s Day Who says Jan. 1 is the start of the New Year? I’m no historian, but as far as I can make out Jan. 1 was chosen more or …
Resolve to Remind Yourself
What is it about New Year’s resolutions that makes them so easy to forget? Let’s face it, making resolutions is easy. Sticking to them–not so much. Here are some tips to help support you in succeeding …
Making New Year’s Resolutions…40 Days at a Time
A Year is a Long Time 364 days (365 for 2016, which is a leap year) is a long time for sticking to a new habit or behavior. So rather than make a New Year’sResolution for …
A New Year’s Reducing Plan
Perhaps in the wake of the season of gift giving and receiving, you’re feeling like you’ve consumed too much: Too much food and drink, as well having bought too much and accumulated too many gifts. In these quiet days we have an opportunity to take …
Resolve to do New Year’s Resolutions Differently
New Year, New You What was your New Year’s resolution for 2015? Don’t remember? Perhaps you don’t want to remember because you didn’t succeed at keeping it. Don’t worry. 2016 is your chance to do things …
Dragonslayers welcome!
“Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the hoard, the ‘treasure hard to attain.’ He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has …
New Year. New Question. (#Quest2016)
What if in the New Year you had to devote yourself to One Question? Let’s up the stakes: If you do so, you are promised treasures and a fortune so great that you will have all …
The Life-Changing Magic of Deleting My Facebook Pages
Recently, I consulted a consultant to help me tidy up my web page and set some business goals for 2016. But after laying out my array of projects and pursuits (there’s the dream business, the …
#tellyourself about the New Year
What I most need to tell myself about 2016? 2016? What does that mean? A really big number. A new page on the calendar. Is that all? 2016 is an opportunity. Just as each morning …