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New Year Resolutions: Why Words Matter More Than Willpower

New Year Resolutions: Why Words Matter More Than Willpower

Why New Year resolutions fail and how changing your language creates lasting change? I started working on a New Year’s newsletter for my students and realized quickly that it needed more space. What was intended to be a short reflection became a deeper look at why words matter more than willpower when we set intentions. Once the Twelve Holy Nights are over and the first week of the new year settles, something always shifts for me. The urgency of January…

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Embracing the Year of the Dragon: A Time of Strength, Prosperity, and Transformation

Embracing the Year of the Dragon: A Time of Strength, Prosperity, and Transformation

In my culture, when we celebrated our New Year on December 31st, we always made a big deal about one of the animals in Chinese culture. It depended on whose turn it was to represent the coming year. I’d be all into it! I would dress up in the colors symbolic of the coming year, and whipping up a dish that the animal of the year was into. We’d set up a symbol of the animal on our dinner table…

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