Year in Review: 2016
Death in the Family
September 28, 2016
Proud to be a Muslim – No apologies. No excuses.
December 15, 2016
By Fareeha Qayoom
This year has been tough for me. Personally. Professionally. Spiritually. Financially. Creatively.
Personally –
my mom died.
Professionally – I work for a public university. There is a giant brick wall between the decision makers and the implementers. You need six months to move from point A to point B. Nothing gets done this way. I need to learn to de-stress and let go. It’s out of my control.
Spiritually – I think I have grown spiritually and I am a stronger and a better person.
Financially – no savings. Paid extra taxes. No hope of recouping my losses. The government is like a giant pit. You can throw good money after the bad but you don’t get any of it back.
Creatively – my creativity died this year. It might have been a combination of stressors. Suffice it to say, creativity needs room to breathe. It’s like a tender seed. It needs a conducive environment to grow. Criticism, clutter, and depression, can kill it stone dead. Mine was anything but. So I dreamed about uncluttered space, minimalist lifestyle and simplicity. Hopefully, next year I can take action instead of just dreaming…
December is the month we take stock and build on the successes and failures of the past. We also create new resolutions. Well, I don’t have any new resolutions. I have only old.
- Re-discover my creativity.
- Simplify my life.
- Make good decisions in the coming year.
- Cut down on self-entertainment. Concentrate on self-education.
- Make space for myself.
- Do useful and productive things.
- Thank God.
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Top 10 Healthiest New Year’s Resolutions
This year, pick one of these worthy resolutions, and stick with it. Here’s to your health!
New Year, healthier you
New Year’s resolutions are a bit like babies: They’re fun to make but extremely difficult to maintain.
Each January, roughly one in three Americans resolve to better themselves in some way. A much smaller percentage of people actually make good on those resolutions. While about 75% of people stick to their goals for at least a week, less than half (46%) are still on target six months later, a 2002 study found.
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20452233,00.html
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The New Year is slowly nearing, and with the holiday season already upon us many people are indulging in retrospection and reevaluating some of their life choices. New Year’s resolutions are the perfect opportunity for all those who have failed to start making the changes that they said they would make next week, next month, or perhaps when winter starts.
Well, now’s your chance to sit down and prepare a list of important lifestyle changes you want to make, and being the charitable and caring bunch that we are here at Lifehack, we’ve decided to give you a bit of help – because since the majority of people fail to stick to their resolution, you’ll need all the help you can get.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/50-new-years-resolution-ideas-and-how-achieve-each-them.html
13 Habits To Adopt In The New Year For A Long, Happy, Healthy Life
Doable resolutions, reachable goals.
Ah, New Year’s Resolutions. Those things you embark upon with such gusto on January 1, determined that this. Will. Be. The. Year. And then…life gets in the way. Late nights at work laugh in the face of decision to clock a 10K each A.M. Friends, still throwing parties to soften the holidays-are-over sting, turn your Drynuary into Drown(in wine)uary. The list goes on, but you get the point: Changing your habits, no matter how well-meaning, is hard. And quick-hit resolutions often don’t cut it.
But sustainable resolutions do exist, and even better, they can help you build the foundation for a long, healthy, happy life. Here, 13 habits you can actually stick to for good.
http://www.self.com/story/13-new-years-resolutions-long-healthy-happy-life
Don’t you wish every month could be December? Everywhere you look there’s a hint of tinsel, a splash of cheer, a touch of goodwill.
And, of course, the ubiquitous “year in review” articles.
Before the month is over you will have read numerous “Famous people who died this year”, “Top 10 world-changing events of 2016”, “Best and worst of TV/film/books/radio”, and so on and so forth.
For a more personal review, Facebook has got you covered. For the one billion of us who use the platform, a charming little year in review video is available which lets you see pictures from earlier this year through to your last photos, interspersed with hearts and smiley faces. It’s somewhat morbidly like a eulogy of your life.
While it’s important to remember what has passed this year (the good and the bad), December is a great time to look forwards and start thinking about those New Year’s resolutions.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/year-in-review-look-forwards-not-backwards/news-story/65aa759c2dde36e2a42b020b880333d0
Forget New Year’s Resolutions, be Better Day by Day
SEAN WILLIAMS on December 7, 2016 at 4:10 pm
If you’ve ever made a New Year’s resolution, you’ve also probably broken one. That is at least what the statistics suggest, as one Forbe’s Magazine study found that only eight percent of people regularly achieve what they resolved to do on New Year’s.
It is easy to look at this with a pessimistic view and say that people just can’t change. But, I believe it’s only a matter of how you go about it. The issue is that a New Year’s resolution is the wrong way to motivate yourself. Change is actually achievable, but only once you get beyond the final achievement mindset and start working towards smaller daily improvements, or daily resolutions.
http://dailyutahchronicle.com/2016/12/07/forget-new-years-resolutions/