Tag: New Year’s resolutions
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Have You Picked a Word for 2020?
I Chose a Phrase Instead: “Jesus, take my head.” “Let me have your head,” the massage therapist told me. She was working on my neck and shoulder muscles and needed me to give her the full weight of my head while I simply relaxed. It was my first massage in more than a decade, and […]
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Secrets to success at the gym…
What separates those who succeed at their New Year’s resolutions from those who don’t? Some sources indicate that 40 percent of Americans make resolutions each year, but only 8 percent succeed, while others suggest that nearly 50 percent of those who make resolutions hold that resolve 6 months into the deal. Frankly, the numbers […]
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If you “resolve” to hit the gym…
Those of us who regularly populate the health club brace ourselves as we consider your upcoming New Year’s resolution to work out. We know the onslaught of your good intentions will pave our road to a six-week hell — as you fill our parking spaces and favorite lockers and exercise classes and lanes in the […]
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Resolving to be “all there” …
I have newfound resolve — just in time for 2015.This Christmas season I’m different. Once I had the Christmas lights hung (always more complicated, frustrating, and time-consuming than it should be), I found I wasn’t my humbug self. I joyed each night as dusk came and the windows glowed with their outline of colored lights. The tree […]
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When your resolutions mess with mine…
Confessions of a gym regular: I knew today would reveal the number of resolutions made nearly a week ago, because today is the first “real” work day of the New Year. Especially in this, a college town, students of all ages — and their teachers and staff — return to classes, but only after they […]
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