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Getting Started on Your New Year’s Resolutions
Do you feel stuck in your tracks when you want to get started on fulfilling your New Year’s resolutions? Here are some suggestions to get you and other Sandwiched Boomers moving in the right direction. Decide on a realistic goal. Make it a specific one you can attain. If you want to be more physically fit, commit to taking a 30-minute walk three times a week. If weight loss is your goal, resolve to lose two pounds a month so that you are 10 pounds lighter by summer. Make a … Continue reading
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Strategies to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Over two thousand years ago, the ancient Romans began the practice of making New Year’s resolutions when they named the first month after Janus, the god of beginnings. Janus had two faces, one looking back at the old year, the other looking forward to the new one. In order to secure good fortune in the future, January became the time when you ask forgiveness for past deeds and look inward for how you can improve. Now that you have made your own personal resolutions – still an honored ritual at … Continue reading
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This ends our posts of how you, as Sandwiched Boomers, can take care of yourself as you juggle family responsibilities: 1. Draw upon your strengths – both personal and spiritual – as you put one foot in front of the other and do what you have to do each day. You know best what sustains you in difficult times – love, duty, loyalty, faith, hope, compassion, bravery, forgiveness. 2. Create boundaries to protect yourself. Don’t beat yourself up for the mistakes you make – learn from them. Rather than give … Continue reading
Are you like the millions of Americans who, year after year, make New Year’s resolutions that they don’t keep? Have you made a vow to lose 25 pounds, exercise four times a week or save monthly for your retirement? Noble goals – but do you keep them past the end of January? More crucial than setting broad goals is setting achievable ones and then putting them into practice. As 2008 begins, we’re going to focus on how, as Sandwiched Boomers, you can make your resolutions work for you. By tomorrow, … Continue reading
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Tagged exercise, lose weight, New Year's resolutions, Sandwiched Boomers, save money
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