Usually, when the day is finished, I review on what I have achieved and come across. New Year is no different.

These are the questions I ask myself: Did I accomplish what I had planned for the year? Did I make an effort to improve myself in a moral, professional, social, or personal aspect? Am I the same person that I was same time last y

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The story of a mother faced with a child announcing he is an atheist and the example of faith and hopefulness she exhibited in the face of that revelation provides a backdrop for welcoming in the New Year. Don't forget to submit your post for Hopeful Spirit's weekly blog carnival, The Seventh Day, by Saturday at noon (Pacific time). Posts

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It seems that at the end of every year we tend to look at what we consider our failures and make resolutions to do better in the New Year. We have got ourselves caught in a performance trap, we have believed a lie. “I must meet certain standards to feel good about myself”. Because of past failures to meet our expectations of ourselves, or tho

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I don't really believe in making New Year's resolutions. That's because I find it hard to buy into the notion that the passage of time between midnight on Dec 31st one year and 1 minute past midnight on January 1st in the next year is suddenly going to change me. I'm more of a realist and I know that making several resolutions is likely t

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As a child I was once told...that the weather for all twelve months of a year is determined by conditions of the first 12 days of that year.

Following that logic, a cloudy January 6 would translate to a very gloomy month of June... Of course, this is a very questionable and unreliable means for forecasting weather. But what if it were not?

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What does my title mean? You'll soon find out as Chinese brings up a majority of the world's population and because of that, many of us are starting to celebrate the same traditions as was celebrated back in Ancient China. This tradition and called Chinese New Year and this year is the year of the Rate, which means differen

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In Japan the New Year is a time for great deals. Stores put leftover merchandise from last year into fukubukuro or lucky bags and sell them for cheap. You can't see what's inside, but the contents are always worth waaaay more than what you pay for them. Last year my wife bought two bags for 10,000 yen each (about $100 each) and got 80,000

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I know it’s fashionable to write flashbacks at the end of year to remember the big things that happened during the last year. So, I decided to take a minute and try to recall the biggest things that happened to me in 2007… And in fact, it took me an hour…
this year was very special, since it has changed the world of the industry of these lit

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The end of 2008 is coming and now is time to plan early that special occasion.

So why not to try something different and come to Lagos in Algarve were you can enjoy several local gastronomy in restaurants with New Year special programs and then the firework in the river front of Lagos old town.

Afterwards you can relax in

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