TO MAKE RESOLUTIONS STICK, LET CO-WORKERS BE YOUR CONSCIENCE

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 5, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

New Year's resolutions - like campaign promises - sound great at first, caked as they are with earnestness and optimism. But few people actually believe they'll last.

Let's face it. We're not very good at keeping commitments to ourselves. If you tell yourself you're going to lose 20 pounds, and then gorge on chocolates come Feb. 14, who's going to know? Just you.

The great satirist, Mark Twain, once wrote about the New Year, "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

Although most of us don't take such a ...

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