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Tuesday; January 23

How are your New Year’s Resolutions going? For a lot of us, we start out the year with good intentions, but then life gets in the way. Our trips to the gym become less frequent while our trips to the refrigeration come more often. We are more critical of people and less tolerant of the differences we see in them. We start to worry more and relax less. Now, the reason I bring this up is not to shame you into hanging in there another couple of weeks, rather it is to help us all understand that for changes to be effective, they must be viewed through a telescope, not a microscope. We are going fail … we are going to struggle … we are going to stand on the brink of giving in or even giving up. That’s okay because when we truly want to make a change we should be okay with progress, not stuck on perfection. Most of us realize that it has taken months (or years) for bad habits to develop and it would be absurd to believe we can make meaningful changes in a matter of days. We are goin