This challenge is not like some giant set of New Year resolutions, we all know what happens to those.
And even though New Year resolutions are supposed to go in one year and out the other, there are still 352 days until the end of days.
Usually New Year resolutions are broken by the first quarter, so as we sum up Q1 2011, I wanted to share some encouraging news to keep you on track.
New Year's Day has no very religious origin, and so can be celebrated by the most zealous secularist - but perhaps not with new year resolutions, which are a Puritan tradition of spiritual improvement.
It comes as the government has launched a graphic anti-smoking advertising campaign, which features a cigarette with a tumour growing from it, and as many smokers prepare to quit as part of their new year resolutions.
Karen Pratt got tired of making the same New Year's resolutions year after year: Exercise.
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As the calendar clicked over into 2011 last weekend, millions will have made new year's resolutions.
"You really see New Year's resolutions in a different light, " says Ms. Pratt, 57, a nonprofit consultant.
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How, then, can we fulfill our sometimes-unpleasant New Year's resolutions, such as losing weight or kicking a bad habit?
"New Year's resolutions could lead to more people trying low-carb diets, " wrote Morgan Stanley's William Pecoriello in a research note today.
Libbe HaLevey, a business coach, says she advises workers not to make New Year's resolutions because "resolution" makes it sound like the issue is quickly taken care of.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to be a bit more frugal with your tech purchases, perhaps we can help you get a jump start on said goal a day early.
If one of your New Year's resolutions involved spending a massive chunk of change to kick out as many frames per second as technologically possible, you may want to put the brakes on that impending NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX purchase.
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And since eating better, taking control of personal finances, traveling more and learning something new regularly top the list of New Year's resolutions, we've pulled together some of our best tips and tricks across Google to make 2013 the year you succeed with your goals.
The new year typically prompts us to make new resolutions, and our country certainly needs some resolve.
In a time when many are pondering resolutions for the new year, the milk business needs to do some serious soul-searching.
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Many people start off the New Year with good intentions for fulfilling resolutions, but their interest and enthusiasm often wanes away by the end of February.
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The Health At Every Size professional organization, Association of Size Diversity and Health, this week launched the project Resolved, a response to New Year's weight-loss resolutions.
As we begin another new year, these four behaviors can function as resolutions for all of us.
That causes problems because the military often was planning to increase or decrease specific accounts in the new year, and without special legislative action such resolutions typically prohibit shifting funds between major accounts.
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"The new year has arrived, and with it all the resolutions that we hope to tackle in 2013, " Google's Liz Wessel wrote on the company's blog.
You know the story: it's a new year, health and fitness are at the top of your resolutions list, then it all dies down after a month or two.
Now we are well in to the new year it has been very interesting watching some of the boys attempt to keep to their resolutions.
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