Editorial January 1, 2018 Issue

New beginnings, daily—and more!

Tony Lobl

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

So says the protagonist in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll), and after making a New Year’s resolution we may hope to say the same!

Yet it seems we’re more likely to identify with Bill Murray’s character in the movie Groundhog Day, who kept waking up each morning right back where he was the day before. Researchers found that just 9.2 percent of people felt they were successful in implementing their 2016 resolutions.

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