Setting small, achievable goals and giving in to little rewards.
Those ideas are key when making and sticking to New Year’s resolutions. While some people like to set various personal goals, three resolutions — lose weight, stop smoking, save money — seem to crop up each Jan. 1 just to be abandoned a few weeks later.
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