Alex Shalman's site, Practical Personal Development falls into the categories of smart, smart and smart. Here's an excerpt from our guest post titled How to Launch a Revolution in Your Resolutions over at his place. Don't forget to leave a comment.

How to Launch a Revolution in Your Resolutions

Stop making them.

It’s so curious how we spend the last weeks of the year in a sugar-plum-induced family frenzy of parties and holiday sweaters, and expect to walk into our lives on January 1 ready to drill down and get things done.

To get our minds focused back on what the year holds in store for us we make these shoulds-posing-as-resolutions and order all kinds of shiny productivity tools and smile at the future coming toward us. Then February rolls around and we glance sideways at our list and hope nobody’s looking over our shoulders.

Straight out, resolutions are dangerous little dragons because we humans need meaning...

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Thank you Alex, and Happy New Year's!