Today’s Resolution: Avoid Being Overdue
Today’s Resolution: Avoid Being Overdue One under-utilized resource in your community might be the public library. When was the last time you went? Do you even have a library card? You do not even have...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Put a Lid On It!
Today’s Resolution: Put a Lid On It! Make a concerted effort to check your lids around the house, apartment, or condo. Check your toothpaste tubes, ketchup bottles, and trash cans. Clean up any excess...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Celebrate Christmas in July
Today’s Resolution: Celebrate Christmas in July Each year as the winter holidays roll around, I find myself scurrying to get holiday greetings out to family and friends. It even seems more and more...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Answer the Question “Will It Blend?”
Today’s Resolution: Answer the Question “Will It Blend?” There is a series of YouTube videos that has made its mark with the title, “Will It Blend?” and experiments each segment with throwing random...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Make Movie Madness
Today’s Resolution: Make Movie Madness If you have spent any time at all on a weekend in front of your television, you are probably aware of “marathon” sessions of shows or movies. There are familiar...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Dare to Be Different
Today’s Resolution: Dare to Be Different Resolve to do something out of the ordinary today. Drink your coffee black if you normally do not. Change your hairstyle. Wear a color you don’t normally wear...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Avoid Running on Empty
Today’s Resolution: Avoid Running on Empty Take an inventory of what needs to be restocked in your desk, the pantry, your car, or your drawers. For items that spoil or expire too quickly, pick up...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Assert Your Will Power
Today’s Resolution: Assert Your Will Power Most people don’t think about making a will until they get married, have children, or both. Mortality is not a subject we are very comfortable talking about,...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Add up Checks and Balances
Today’s Resolution: Add up Checks and Balances Keeping a close eye on your pennies can save you dollars in the long run. Establish a routine and organized method of balancing your checkbook or other...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Join an Over 80 Club
Today’s Resolution: Join an Over 80 Club Octogenarians and older have a wealth of wisdom to share. These are people who have seen the world change in so many ways over the decades. They grew up during...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Get All Laced Up
Today’s Resolution: Get All Laced Up When we think about our shoes, rarely do we have ideas on how a new set of laces might spruce up our wardrobe. Usually we are on to thinking about that next pair of...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Travel to a Reader’s Paradise
Today’s Resolution: Travel to a Reader’s Paradise Classic treasures can be found for free and without a map. Missed Hamlet the first time in 10th grade English class? Looking for the spoils of war...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Set a Date
Today’s Resolution: Set a Date Make a time capsule for yourself. Create several long term lists with personal goals. Put the headings on your lists: “6 months from now,” “1 year from now,” 5 years from...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Get an Appraisal
Today’s Resolution: Get an Appraisal It is amazing how popular shows that highlight cleaning out sheds, storage units, and homes have become. The premise feeds upon the idea that “one man’s junk is...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Build a London Bridge
Today’s Resolution: Build a London Bridge In case you didn’t realize, the XXX Olympiad is underway in London, England. Even if you are not a sports enthusiast, it is not tough to recognize this is a...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Stitch in Time
Today’s Resolution: Stitch in Time Seamstress and tailoring skills seem obsolete these days. I can barely sew a button, let alone see the eye of the needle to feed the thread through. But there are...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Frame Someone
Today’s Resolution: Frame Someone Most people have at least one picture frame in their possession somewhere. If it contains the image of someone near and dear to your heart, update it with a more...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Let It Shine!
Today’s Resolution: Let It Shine! Polishing and putting a shine on items needs to be done from time to time. Jewelry lost a little of its luster? Sometimes just submerging silver and gold items in a...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Make Key Points
Today’s Resolution: Make Key Points Misplacing keys can be very annoying especially if you don’t have a spare tucked away somewhere. A single spare key by itself can be easily overlooked. Make it a...
View ArticleToday’s Resolution: Follow a New Blog
Today’s Resolution: Follow a New Blog Participating in the internet community can be intimidating and even awkward for those not used to it. Some people “drop in” to conversations, some like to stand...
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