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8 Ways To Change Your Life This Year
By Denise Foley
What is it about the stroke of midnight on December 31 that makes every problem and flaw
you have stand out like a pimple on prom night? Who invented New ear!s resolutionsanyway" the #ar$uis de %ade? &s torture goes" self'improvement is the rack and the
thumbscrew all in one
(f you!re like us" your list of fi)es is longer than your kids! letters to %anta* lose 1+ pounds"
lose more than 1+ pounds" flatten your belly" worry less" get along better with the family" put
some meaning into your life" develop a strategy to help you remember where you parked your
car,and put your keys,and be sharper at work- Worse" it!s the same list you make every
year- .Note to self* &dd /stop procrastinating/ to list-0
Don!t make a list" then cross your fingers that one of these days you!ll be discovered by a 2
makeover crew- ere are 4 relatively painless ways to fi) your life this year-
Lose 10 to 20 Pounds
5emember these words* 6ut 1++" burn 1++- (f" in the ne)t year" you cut a meager 1++ calories
a dayout of your diet" and burn an e)tra 1++ calories a day through some relatively effortless
activity" you can lose 1+ to 7+ pounds by ne)t New ear!s .and scratch this perennial
resolution off your list" finally0-
When researchers studied the e)panding waistlines of most &mericans" they discovered that
on average" people gain about 7 pounds a year- /ou don!t reali8e it in a month9 you don!treali8e it in a year9 but 1+ years later you say" !Where!d these 7+ pounds come from?!/ says
study author :ames ;- ill"
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Wash your car by hand
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in-/ es" you will be talking to yourself" but isn!t that less embarrassing than riding around for
7+ minutes with mall security trying to find your car?
#ae Pea+e ith Your Fa&iy
5epeat after us" /We will never be the Waltons-/ our goals need to be smaller" says eonardFelder"
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(dd #eaning to Your Life
/When you!re wondering if anyone would care if you suddenly disappeared" it!s a sure sign
that you need to contribute more"/ says psychologist %u8anne Ioglio"
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a bag- hey made their chips from a wet potato mi)ture and molded them so they would nest
together like spoons in a canister-
Pay the rando& ord'+hain ga&e* When you take two seemingly unconnected words and
string together thoughts that connect them" you form new ideas- ;ne of @ordon!s e)amples*
forest'milk- is chain* forest" maple trees" spouts draining sap for syrup" cow being milked"milk- (n the workplace" this process is known as brainstorming* coming up with ideas that
will get you from & .your problem0 to B .your desired outcome0- While most of us
brainstorm with others" doing it alone can be advantageous" says @ordon- %ome of the best
ideas spring from the silliest" he says" and if you!re alone you!re less likely to censor ideas that
might seem /wacky/ in a group-
!to- Pro+rastinating
%(N@ is the acronym for a nearly foolproof .and easy to remember0 way to stop putting
things off till tomorrow9 it was developed by /recovering procrastinator/ and motivational
speaker 5ita Emmett" author of *he Procrastinator+s Handboo'- ./( was so good at takingbreaks that ( could make a 7'hour Aob last 1 months"/ she told us-0 %he assures us this
techni$ue works for everything e)cept losing weight and $uitting smoking- ere!s how it
goes*
! !ee+t 3ust one thing to do* Does writing your novel come to mind? ;r cleaning your
Aunk drawer?
T Ti&e yoursef* Find the timer in the Aunk drawer" and set it for 1 hour to do that one
thing-
/ /gnore e"erything ese* Disregard other stuff that needs doing" the phone call you have to
make" e'mails you have to read,everything e)cept a fire in the kitchen- /;therwise" you!ll
get so sidetracked that you!ll look at the clock and say" !(t!s too late to even get started" so (!ll
do it tomorrow"!/ warns Emmett-