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This is Laura.

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Today's tip is to consider setting quarterly resolutions instead of the usual annual New Year's

ones. I love setting New Year's resolutions. There's something about the clean slate of a new calendar year that makes me want to set new goals.

But like many people, my excitement about bright shiny New Year's goals

often exceeds my actual capacity to implement these changes.

And that's why I love the idea which I got several years ago from an entrepreneur named Angela Gia Kim

to set quarterly resolutions.

Basically, the idea is that instead of focusing only on the stuff you'll try in January,

you set goals for each quarter of the year.

You get a clean slate in January, April, July, and October. There are several

upsides to this concept. For starters you can set more goals. I tend to identify 12, one for each quarter

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