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Just 8% of People Achieve Their New Year’s Resolutions. Here’s How They Do It.
Forbes: Let me guess: You want to lose weight in 2013, or maybe just eat healthier. Perhaps you want to spend less money or spend more time with your friends and family. I know I
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Resolutions: So Irresistible, So Hard to Keep
The Wall Street Journal: It’s a scenario most of us know well: We start out on a grand plan to exercise more, lose weight or cut out the cigarettes. Then we fail, sometimes repeatedly, each
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Happy New Year: Pick Up a New Skill
The New Yorker: New Year’s Eve is a time for reflection about the year that passed and a time to set goals for the future. Should we keep doing what are we doing, or should
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How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick: Q&A with an Expert on Change
TIME: It’s time to set goals for the coming year, and a psychologist has some hints for helping you to make those changes last. John Norcross, a professor of psychology at the University of Scranton
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Psychology of Compromise: Why Congress Fails
LiveScience: Hyenas do it. Elephants do it. But apparently congressional representatives do not. “It” would be cooperation, which has been little-seen in Washington during the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Despite a deadline they themselves set with
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Why Do People Go Nuts on New Year’s Eve?
U.S. News & World Report: True story. Last year, I went to a New Year’s Eve party based on the following facts: It was being held at a very cool coffeehouse and geared toward an