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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have discovered a brilliant way to begin the New Year.&nbsp; This does not include the traditional celebration, gorging on food that you will have to work hard to remove from your waistline, clinking glasses of champagne at midnight, or even partying with friends.&nbsp; My way to begin the New Year has the potential of making you very happy or very sad.</span>

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you might imagine, there are hundreds (probably more like thousands) of websites that not only list New Year’s Resolutions, but give advice as to how to accomplish what you plan to do.&nbsp; One website makes it very clear that most resolutions are broken within 48 hours of when they are made.&nbsp; That can be easily explained by talking about laziness, habits, and comfort zones — but everyone already knows this.&nbsp; Changing any of the ten areas where you realize you could use some change requires huge amounts of planning, persistence, and patience, not to speak of time and effort.&nbsp; Most people just say to hell with it and live their lives the same way they have been living it.</span>

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