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New Year’s Resolutions: Find a mantra and make it matter
To make New Year’s resolutions that stick, think like a marketer. Focus on benefits, not features. A feature describes (more noodles, hybrid power, sheepskin lining. A benefit is about desires (which...
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The beginning of the new year’s … resolutions
After partying like a rock star on New Year’s Eve (really, I was wearing Lady Gaga-like platform shoes that had me towering over the common rabble, and when I heard a “Paparazzi” cover by the band, I...
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T-hugger (I resolve to embrace technology)
Resolution No. 2 for 2012: Embrace technology. I used iMovie for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and when I successfully completed a video without too many complications, I wondered, “Why didn’t...
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This resolution is a stretch
No round of New Year’s resolutions is complete without an intention to lose weight or exercise more, right? Isn’t that what everyone resolves on Jan. 1? It would seem so by the increase in volume at...
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There’s an app for Sleeping Beauty
“Get enough sleep.” That bit of advice was among a dozen tidbits I picked up from speakers at two networking meetings I attended the past two days. It’s that time of year, you know, when all the “be...
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Post redux: On prayer, a president and a poll
Long ago, in a galaxy far away (OK, if you must be a stickler, a state far away), I was a radio deejay. I was in college, and the university had its own radio station, and said radio station had dozens...
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Oh, the joy of a new calendar!
I found myself at a Barnes & Noble bookstore today (yes, I was using a Garmin, and yes, I typed in “Barnes,” but I found myself there as much as I was drawn). And I picked up a beautiful 2013...
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Resolutions I wish other people would make
The world would be a lot better place if only, well, if only beauty queens worked as hard for world peace as they profess to want it. That’s the problem with resolutions. They require hard work. If...
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A year in books at Minnesota Transplant’s house
With millions of books to read and more being published every day, I thought it bold to resolve to read 52 books in 2013. That’s only a book a week, after all, and even at that pace, I would barely...
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The habit of housekeeping elevates the mundane to the sublime
The Power of the Mundane resonates with me. Rachael at Frugal Faye blogs about this in “The Power of the Mundane: Why I Love Housekeeping.” She describes the Power of the Mundane as “sameness and...
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Dear Friend, Here are my hopes for you in the new year
I resolve to treat myself gently in 2015. Regular readers know I am a resolutions junkie. I make New Year’s Resolutions every year, and some years they even have themes. Sometimes I even stick to them....
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Ode to inertia
We’re heading into the weekend. It’s a new month Sunday. Maybe you’re mourning your unfulfilled New Year’s resolutions. Time for a pep talk. Maybe you didn’t get done in January what you wanted to get...
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Ode to inertia
We’re heading into the weekend. It’s a new month Sunday. Maybe you’re mourning your unfulfilled New Year’s resolutions. Time for a pep talk. Maybe you didn’t get done in January what you wanted to get...
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Ode to inertia
We’re heading into the weekend. It’s a new month Sunday. Maybe you’re mourning your unfulfilled New Year’s resolutions. Time for a pep talk. Maybe you didn’t get done in January what you wanted to get...
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Hook me up, it’s resolution time
Connect. That’s the theme for my 2016 resolutions. My mantra. The truth is, life is pretty great. And I’m feeling pretty good about things. About me. About life. So my list of New Year’s resolutions...
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Capote thriller wrapped up my year in books
The last book I read in 2015 was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, and I read it in one day. A classic, it is, and for good reason. I chose it because I qualified it as “a book that came out the year I...
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She stuck a feather in her cap and called it macaroni
Be creative is my mantra for 2017. cre·a·tive /krēˈādiv/ relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work That’s me this year. A regular...
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A jar full of intentions
It’s the first day of a whole new year, a whole new chance to make good on the potential endowed to me by the Creator. I love a clean slate. Regular readers know I am a resolutions junkie. I make New...
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