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January 23, 2015

2015 New Year’s Resolutions

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I know that studies have recently shown that tracking your progress can actually hinder success, because little victories give your brain a sense of accomplishment that might be satisfying enough to where you stop working toward your big goal. However, in spite of that, I am a strong believer that it’s hard to succeed if you aren’t measuring/tracking your progress toward a goal. I’m a total rule follower, so having some sort of unequivocal standard for my goals helps me keep up with achieving them, rather than setting out something more nebulous that I think kind of forget about doing. …

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January 21, 2015

Sponsored: Little Changes to Keystone Habits Drive Big Results

I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council. I received a stipend to facilitate my purchase for my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. Ever since moving to the suburbs from NYC, I will fully admit that my lifestyle is changed. You know that line in Old School, where Frank talks about his weekend plans? “Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we’re going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, …

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January 1, 2015

An Engaging 1920s New Years’ Eve

1920s New Years Eve

Last night was a truly wonderful New Year’s Eve! It kicked off with a few of my girlfriends coming over to my place for some food and champagne before we got ready to go out. I popped a bottle of Rosa Regale that I had picked up for my housewarming months ago, which we had forgotten to open at the time. New Year’s Eve seemed as good an occasion as any! In addition to the small bites that I had prepared, my girlfriends also brought over some dangerously delicious homemade baked goods. (More to come on those.) We headed up …

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December 31, 2014

2014 Year in Review: Successes and Failures

2014: Year in Review

Chris Bailey over at A Life of Productivity wrote a great piece recently on Creating an Accomplishments List. At this time of year, it’s all too common for us to start thinking of ways we can make next year “our best one yet!” But how can you be realistic about goal setting if you don’t know where you currently stand? While Chris’ approach is to create a list of just accomplishments, I really like Leo Babauta at Zen Habits’ way of doing it: this year, he very honestly listed out his successes and failures for 2014. It’s definitely a little …

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December 29, 2014

The Happiness of Pursuit: Engaging to Identify My Next Quest

The Happiness Of Pursuit

Last weekend, I read Chris Guillebeau’s wonderful book, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life. It’s a really fascinating look at how people choose “quests” – which are basically long-term goals with clearly defined steps to completion. For example, a mother in Oklahoma cooked her family a meal from every country in the world; a 16-year old girl from Norway became the youngest to circumnavigate the globe in a sailboat; and a guy from California gave up speaking for 17 years. (Yes, I know, I would never survive that last one, chatty as …

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