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Resolutions? Yeah baby!

365 new days – 365 new chances

Just love a brand new year don’t you? A fresh chapter, an opportunity to regroup, re-energise, re-set the button on life. Health, wealth, relationships, lifestyle, knowledge, career, spiritual – whatever the focus, a chance to make good, improve or simply enhance with one or two resolutions.

Given my 2016 New Year Resolution list was heavy on self-indulgence – Netflix marathons to catch up on missed gigs; French lessons to grapple the lingo; monthly massages to iron out tired muscles and so on – found myself in serious need of a tad more challenge. A Google journey brought up Richard Branson’s latest. I’m not talking the ‘fly to the moon’ stuff here, I’m talking the more gentle stuff. Read on for a few life changing options…

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From the mouths of babes…

The ‘Q Weekend’ magazine. A great little lunch time read, 30 minutes and I’m done and back in action, but not before relishing an article where four Queensland kids, age five, eight, 12 and 15, share their insights on the big issues with Frances Whiting (Smart Stuff, Q Weekend, Nov 14-15)  Extracts that are at once refreshing, amusing, insightful, poignant and up-lifting. The one that really stands out for me? Jessica’s opinion on Kim Kardashian. Our future is in good hands.

Q: Why do people have different coloured skin? 

Because people change colours when they are babies (Lewis age 5)

Because some are Torres Strait Islanders and some are Aboriginal (Savanna age 8)

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