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Best Intentions

We all know the routine – either on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s day, someone asks, “Hey, Carrie, what’s your New Year’s resolution this year?” And then, out of desperation, most of reach for tried and true statements such as losing weight or exercising more. But we all know that somewhere around mid-February, these best intentions for a new way of being fall away in the business of our normal ways.
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Baby Stepping into 2013

New Year’s Resolutions don’t work. At least they don’t work for me. 2002: Get in Shape. 1999: Learn a New Language. How did those work out for me? Well, let’s just move on. So I haven’t made them in about a decade because I used to find that I would forget about them by mid-to-late January. By that time each year something else had grabbed my attention and that capital “R” Resolution had slowly faded into the din of my life.
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Giving and Receiving During Christmastime

Depending upon the type of person you are, Christmas shopping may already be a thing of the past. Maybe you start planning and buying in July so that these final weeks are filled with more home-time than mall-time.