New years' resolutions are a "loaded" topic. On the one hand they provide an exciting opportunity to make exciting improvements in one's life. On the other hand, they come with a huge pressure and they are frequently unsuccessful as stepping stones to real change. In our society, we build up holidays and we are supposed to behave as the holiday dictates. The problem comes for New Year's, in particular, as this celebration comes in the wake of the biggest, most festive season of all. Unfortunately, most Americans are so spent physically and emotionally by New Year's day that they not only cannot gather up the strength and energy to make a profound change in their life but most are weaker than at any other time of the year. Indeed, Americans are the most "ill" in January every year. It hardly seems like the best time to start a new way of being. This New Year's seems like a special New Year's. We have a new leader coming into power who won on a...
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