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Claiming Victory over and Resisting "Resolution Resistance" - Christofer French
You may have heard of "insulin resistance", a pre-diabetic and diabetic condition in which your body gets over exposed to insulin so much that it adopts a "non-responsiveness" to the effects of insulin. So the body's problem becomes NOT that your body can't produce insulin anymore, it just does... Submitted 145 days 4 hours ago.

Crossing the New Year Time Bridge: Three Items for the Time Traveler - Mogama
Some of my childhood memories are wrapped around moments when my parents or guardians told me to pack for an impending trip to the city or to a church conference. In those days there was very little to pack for any trip regardless of how near or far we had to travel. As an adult with more stuff... Submitted 146 days 1 hour ago.

Here’s To 2012! Finding A Way To Make Dreams Come True Or At Least Give Them A Fighting Chance - Jennifer Stewart
Some time ago I wrote an article about deciding to audition to study jazz vocals next year at University. I hadn’t been doing anything around music for a while, then one day I sat down at the piano again and it all came flooding back - the lust I have to make something serious of my music... Submitted 158 days 4 hours ago.

Happy New Year without Happy New You? Don't Count On It - - Mogama
People who choose to be happy will have a happier year than those who don't. The happy ones act on the knowledge that happiness or misery never comes from the outside in. They know we are happy or miserable from the inside out. A happy new year has more to do with what's going on within us than... Submitted 2 years 146 days ago.

Christmas Is Over But I Still Have A Great Big Present To Open: A New Year-Adventure - Fran Larson
Even though Christmas is over, I still have my most exciting present of all to open. Just thinking of all the delightful possibilities makes me giddy and oh, so happy. It is the gift of time, the gift of a new year. It begs to be opened and teases me with possible surprises and new experiences. ... Submitted 148 days 5 hours ago.

New Years Day: New Adventures, New Thoughts, New Friends: Nurture The Newness & Find Happiness - Fran Larson
Once I was at a writer’s workshop/meeting sitting next to an aspiring artist. We began to chat about if writing and painting were alike in some way. She said both being a writer and an artist is the same. She further went on to say that there is a blank canvass/paper that can be filled with... Submitted 1 year 145 days ago.

Make Resolutions That Stick - George Stay
Once every year, at the start of every year, we wish all those around us a Happy New Year. Sometimes that is just a courtesy. At other times it has as much depth and meaning as asking "How are you?" when we don’t care to hear the real answer. And yet at other times it is said with a depth and... Submitted 1 year 145 days ago.

Why New Year's Resolutions Fail; I Must Confess - - Mogama
As a devoted resolution maker and one who failed more often than I succeeded, I have analyzed the reasons why I kept failing to achieve my resolutions until just few years ago. My resolutions often fell flat because they were nothing more than a faint wish that I made simply... Submitted 2 years 143 days ago.

Whatever on New Years Day You Do, That You'll Do the Whole Year Through - Nila Smith
Have you heard it said; whatever on New Year's Day you do that you'll do the whole year through? It's an old saying, I have no clue who first spoke those words, but I do recall that my mom and my grandma both considered it very seriously when the new year rolled around. The jest of it was, on... Submitted 2 years 144 days ago.

An Amazing Secret To Happiness Told by Alice In Wonderland: Discover It This New Year's Day! - Fran Larson
Have you ever talked to someone who knew you years ago and they said, "You haven't changed a bit." Here is what Alice in Wonderland (by Lewis Carroll) said as she pondered if she had changed or not: " Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning... Submitted 2 years 145 days ago.

Popular Rituals: How to Make a Happy New Year's Eve Celebration Interesting and Exciting - - Nenita Wells
The beginning of the New Year is the best time to say good-bye to unproductive goals. Time to re-examine and renew the short-lived resolutions and promises we made. It is the best time to start over especially in the areas of family relationship, work, money matters and self-improvement goals. ... Submitted 2 years 148 days ago.

A New Year Begins (Poem) - - David Tanguay
A new year is approaching and about to begin To make it alright this time - to try again We ask in the name of the Lord - up above To guide us through - with his eternal love Will we succeed this time in making life better Will he respond - if we write him a letter We ask you... Submitted 2 years 149 days ago.

A New Year Prayer - Judi Lake
I sit quietly with my daughter sound asleep in my arms and stare out into the dark night. It is peaceful and quiet. Everyone, including me, is sick with the flu. One hundred and eight minutes into the New Year, I silently think of the many New Year resolutions being made tonight. There is... Submitted 4 years 146 days ago.

Does a New Year Mean a New You? - Avis Ward
We look to the calendar from whence cometh our help. Why is that so? We look at January 1 st as the answer to our previous year's frustrations. I wonder why? Herbert Hoover said, "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." The concern I have about New Year's... Submitted 4 years 146 days ago.

Old Lame Signs - - Jackie Papandrew
You know how, when you're a child, and you don't correctly hear the lyrics to a song or the words to some hackneyed cliche that adults are always throwing around? Like the phrase my parents often spouted at me when, in a noble effort to be helpful, I'd point out to them the moral failings and... Submitted 4 years 150 days ago.

Top 10 Predictions for 2011 that Will Come True - - Marijo Phelps
A fellow writer (Shari @ SearchWarp) sent me the following e-mail (in italics - original author unknown but I am thanking her for writing this). We then challenged each other to write a piece about it and that ball landed in my court. Both she and I have found that these predictions have been... Submitted 1 year 112 days ago.

New Year Wish List: Things We Shouldn't Have to Pay For in the New Year - - Mogama
It does not baffle me that cost of living increases as quality of life improves. In my African hometown where we used fire, bamboo torches, jack o-lanterns, and kerosene lamps, no one received light bills. In rural Liberia our people do not pay tolls for their roads; they walk on trails that they... Submitted 1 year 147 days ago.

New Year Resolutions for the Year 2011 (poem) - - David Tanguay
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” Benjamin Franklin What will my New Year resolutions be? After I throw out the Christmas tree Perhaps losing weight - I am a bit plump With the lost of a few... Submitted 1 year 151 days ago.

Solutions To New Years Resolutions: How To Have The Stamina To Last Through The Year - Laura Trahan
Every year we do it. I am the worst. I make all of these resolutions only to never start making them a realization or quitting two weeks into the new year. This year, I am determined to make things different. I am motivated and I am looking for ways to cheat. Ways to make it permanent that... Submitted 2 years 140 days ago.

A New Year’s Resolution That Puts Money In Your Pocket - - Kacycarr
Christmas card recycling scheme January 2010. Turn your Christmas cards into trees. Yes you heard right "trees." How many of you have piles of old cards that you're ready to bin, or if you're like me hoard them and keep them in the loft. It's always been a tough decision for me to make every year... Submitted 2 years 145 days ago.

Why Does the Year Begin On January 1? - - Joyce Dunn
First we have Thanksgiving, (here in America , anyway.) Then one month later, Christmas, and one week after that, New Year's Day. After January 1, the holiday scene is pretty bleak until Easter. There is Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day of course, but by comparison to Thanksgiving, Christmas... Submitted 2 years 147 days ago.

My New Year's Resolution: No More Resolutions - Ronyae
Even as a child, I never quite understood why a person waited until the new year to do things different in life; I made changes as they appeared to be needed in my life. And yes, even as a child. When I was 6 or 7 years old, I decided that I wasn't going to sneak into my Christmas gifts... Submitted 2 years 149 days ago.

Happy New Year! How Will You Pronounce 2010? - Danny Davids
In less than a week we enter yet another new year, the last year of the first decade of the 21st century (we've had this discussion already concerning 2000, so take my word for it--we're not about to start a new decade for another year). Happy 2010! But one question: How will you pronounce the... Submitted 2 years 150 days ago.

A New Year and More Resolutions - Robin Newman
I think we begin every new year the wrong way, making lists of things which will probably never eventuate. People try and put the old year behind them, they tuck it under the new one as one would push an old pair of socks under the bed never to be seen again. The irony is the year just gone is... Submitted 2 years 151 days ago.

New Year - - Aaratrika
The merry year is born, Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. 8760 hour, 12 months, 365 days and 756864000 seconds. After this a year comes to an end. In the last year everybody had memorable and depressing moments. For some ,the year was extraordinary while for some, it was... Submitted 2 years 151 days ago.