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Why are New Year’s Resolutions So Hard to Keep?
31 Dec 2017

Why are New Year’s Resolutions So Hard to Keep?

by David Hanscom | posted in: Stage 3, Stage 3: Step 1 | 0

  Each new year, many of us spend time figuring out how we’ll make it better and also to really complete some projects that we have been putting off, maybe for decades. Few of us are able to accomplish a fraction of what we envision. Why? It’s because our unconscious … Read More

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