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Small Changes Will Boost The Success Of Your New Year’s Resolutions

If you’re already thinking about some of the habits you want to change in the coming year, now is a great time to set the stage so you can ease into it when the new year begins. We suggested giving your resolutions a trial run at the beginning of December, but if you didn’t, there’s still time to make some changes so you’re not faced with a huge mountain to climb on January 1.


December 1, 2011
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Give Your New Year’s Resolutions A 30-Day Trial

Part of the problem with New Year’s Resolutions is that you go from not doing them at all on December 31 to taking them seriously on January 1. If your resolutions are big behavioural changes, changing your habits without thinking them through can be a recipe for failure.


January 11, 2011
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Commitie Is A Resolutions Manager With Added Social Pressure

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Need a little social pressure to ensure you stick to your resolutions? Commitie lets you set goals in a range of categories, and then issues daily email reminders as well as sharing your progress with other members of the Commitie community.


January 8, 2011
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Five Things You Should Make Time For This Year

You’ve got 525,948 minutes and a few spare seconds to work with in 2011. You know the speed at which they’ll fly by. Grab a few of them for real reading, “Quiet Time”, goal-setting and other important things.


January 6, 2011
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How To Break Bad Habits

Bad habits are one of the biggest targets for resolutions in the new year, but very prone to failure. Replacing bad habits with new behaviour can be tough, but it’s not impossible. Here are a few great tips to help.


January 5, 2011
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Future-Proof Your Digital Photos With Better Archiving Techniques

The Smithsonian Institute previously provided tips on preserving old photographs, but your digital photos could use some tending as well. Here’s how you (or your photo-obsessed relatives) can future-proof precious shots with better naming, backups (off-site and USB) and smarter photo picks.


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How Can I Get My Appetite Under Control After Eating Twice As Much As Normal?

Dear Lifehacker, Over the holidays, I let my food consumption get out of control. Now I’m trying to get my appetite back to normal, but my stomach’s stretched out and I’m hungry all the time. What can I do? Signed, Too Hungry for Healthy


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Resolved: Make Better Decisions In 2011

Looking back on your choices last year, you may have made some good decisions and some bad ones. As you take on 2011, here are our favourite methods to aid in better decision making.


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How To Form Good Habits This Year

It’s that time of year when we all start to make “New Year’s resolutions”, which is a fancy way of saying we’ll try forming better habits. Here are a few tips to make sure they stay habits beyond the month of January.


January 4, 2011
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Taking A Walk Can Help Stave Off Cravings

Distracting yourself from the thing you’re desperately trying not to do—eat sweets, smoke a cigarette, check Reddit—is one of the most effective willpower boosters. And taking a walk, it turns out, is one of the best ways to distract yourself.