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5 Ways to make food shopping healthier

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Healthy eating starts with healthy grocery shopping. When we arrive at the grocery store, however, and our kids (or we) are yammering for the newest sugared cereals, cookies or ice cream, it’s easy to get distracted and pulled off-course from even the best of intentions to keep your cart…

5 Reasons to set a goal today

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Over the last month or so, I've been in a funk. I hadn't an idea as to why, however, until this past weekend. On a long and beautiful walk, it hit me: Having just released my…

8 organizing tips to throw away

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By Diane Oatis

I used to be a hyperorganizer. I was famous for it. Friends would ask me to help them weed through their closets, and there are still people who walk into my office and say, “It’s so…clean in here.” But sooner or later, life intervenes. Not long ago, at the end of a ridiculously stressful day, I was putting away laundry—I looked at the color-coded-by-season hangers in my closet and it hit me: Why? A long commute, a teenage son, a parent living alone and suddenly being a neatnik seemed less important. So I’ve let go of some things, and guess what? They were never worth the time anyway. Here are eight things I’ve decided I don’t need to do to keep my life in order.