Article December 26, 2005 ISSUE

'UNLESS THERE IS A NEW MIND...'

BY RICHARD NENNEMAN

IT'S POPULAR to make fun of New Year's resolutions. Sometimes we even kid each other about how long it takes to break them. Yet, many people do take stock of themselves at the turn of the year, and sometimes do make resolutions they take seriously.

Have you ever stopped to think that this habit lies at least partly in the innate human feeling that it is right and normal for us to expect progress?

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Dick Nenneman is a former editor-in-chief of The Christian Science Monitor.

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