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New Year's Resolutions: Are They Worth It? How to tap into the power of others to achieve your own goals. #workingmom #newyear #newdecade #newyear'sresolutions

Some traditions, like celebrating holidays with family, we eagerly anticipate, while others, like spring cleaning, we dread. But when it comes to New Year’s resolutions, many of us have a love-hate relationship with this cliched way to kick off the beginning of a new trip around the sun. We eagerly anticipate a new version of ourselves who is slimmer, wealthier, more productive, and more relaxed,…

We’re almost into February. Where are you with your New Year’s Resolutions?

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5 Tips To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

JANUARY 17, 2018

Making New Year’s resolutions is easy. Keeping them, however, can be a challenge. Even the very best laid plans can fall apart. The good news is that achieving your goals is not only possible; it’s easy with just a few simple steps. 1.    Make your goals specific. Instead of saying, “I’m going to lose weight this year” or “I want to get better grades”, say “I want to lose a total of 30 pounds this year” or “I want to bring my G.P.A up to a 3.5”. 2.    Make sure your goals are reasonable. The quickest way to fail at something is to make it impossible to achieve.  Setting a goal of climbing Mount Everest in June when you’re recovering from a major surgery in January might not be the best idea. A better goal would be to spend the year making specific fitness goals that will help you climb the mountain once you reach them.

I’m really excited about this year.

10 Questions to Ask Yourself As We Kick of 2015

New Year, new you…right? You see it everywhere. I am not going to reel you into that craze. You have already seen enough of that already I am sure.

However, what I’d like to have you do it hopefully take a moment to pause and think about the year that has passed. As difficult or glorious as it may have been, if there are new resolutions you’ve already made, things you want to improve…the truth…

Reading, Goals, and Reasonable Expectations | a bit of encouragement from the lovely Kaitlin McDuffie

Twenty-six weeks of 2014 are gone. Quite frankly, I’m beside myself with how quickly the time is flying by. Sure, my father warned me that this time speeding up conundrum would hit me as an adult but I wasn’t prepared for the impact. And now that I’m reeling just a teensy bit from the realization that we are HALWAY THROUGH THE YEAR, I thought it would be good to use this moment as a checkpoint to…