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Jan 10 / Simcha

Rethinking New Year’s Resolutions (T. Parker-Pope)

  Graphic: Chris Gash
Graphic: Chris Gash

I appreciated New York Times blog-writer Tara Parker-Pope’s suggestion to replace New Year resolutions with mission statements. This posting is abridged from her longer posting, Creating a New Mission Statement (1.5.2015).

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Jan 10 / Simcha

Rethinking Habit-Breaking (W. Wood)

start3Wendy Wood, a professor of psychology and business at the University of Southern California, says that a habit only becomes bad “when it starts interfering with other important goals you may have.”  This piece is adapted from the New York Times article Turning a New Year’s Resolution Into Action With the Facts (1.9.2015).

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