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LOOSE ENDS: Has the tradition of resolutions ended?

The time for making official New Year’s resolutions has passed. Yet, that doesn’t stop most of us from making some new intentions for 2025. It isn’t worth saying them aloud, as intentions remain unspoken and therefore never have to be accounted for. It is after the fact that someone claims, “Well, I intended to do…” Meeting a goal is very different from thinking about it only. It morphs into the lifeless annual resolution.  

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