The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Do our possessions possess us?

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    I just finished reading Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale, a delightful, funny and sad book by Lynda Rutledge. As the summary on the back of the book explains, Faith Bass Darling, the richest old woman in Bass, Texas, decides to have a garage sale. Immediately, she begins lugging her priceless Louis XV elephant clock,…

  • Remember the larger reward

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    When I go off my diet and eat two donuts for breakfast, I’m performing “temporal discounting.” Temporal discounting is the tendency to prefer a smaller reward now—like the pleasure of a couple of donuts—instead of waiting for the larger reward later—like being able to fit into the pants I bought last year. I found that…

  • Done any “hedonic eating” recently?

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    When I finished my holiday dinner and felt really full, but I went ahead and ate a big piece of pecan pie with whipping cream anyway, I was engaged in “hedonic eating.” Hedonic eating is eating for pleasure rather than physical need, explained my December 8-14, 2013, issue of Weight Watcher Weekly. It’s interesting to…

  • Back to the regular routine

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    Holidays are wonderful—or mostly wonderful, but it’s good, too, to return to the regular routine. I’m looking forward to whatever happens during the new year. I like the Rainer Maria Rilke quote on a greeting card I received: “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” –Joy

  • Our New Year’s diet

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    We always make a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier. After the holidays is a good time to stock up on fruits and vegetables. As anonymous once said, “People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New…

  • Resolve to be happy

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    We’re going to follow Helen Keller’s advice and resolve to be happy during 2014. “Your success and happiness lies in you,” Helen Keller said. “Resolve to be happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

  • Be resolute with your resolutions

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    It was anonymous who said: “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.” You don’t have to make your resolutions today or tomorrow. You don’t have to make big changes. Little changes are fine. Think carefully. Make a few resolutions. Then, be resolute and keep them.

  • The best day of the year

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    I’m feeling a little too full, a little tired, a little depressed after Christmas is over. But I’m keeping in mind a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” –Joy

  • How to keep Christmas

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    Wouldn’t it be great if we could keep our Christmas spirit all year long? Here’s some advice on how we can “keep Christmas” from writer Henry Van Dyke. “Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children, to remember the weaknesses and loneliness of people who are growing old,…

  • A conspiracy of love

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    “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love,” said Hamilton Wright Mabie, an American author born in 1846. Merry Christmas!