20 Ways to Go Green in 2013

Did you make a green New Year's resolution? Check out these 20 tips to help you stick to your plan.

If you want to be kinder to the planet and save some money at the same time, here are 20 ways to go green in 2013.

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So How Are Those New Year's Resolutions Going?

It's almost two weeks into the year. Have you been diligent and faithful in keeping that New Year's resolution? Did you make any unusual resolutions?

5 Ways to Start Saving Money in the New Year

If your New Year’s resolution is to get your finances in order, these guidelines will help you get started.

In this economy—and especially during this time of year—many of us are facing our very own fiscal cliff. While we may not be able to raise revenue as easily as the federal government can, these five steps may help you reach solvency and put savings in the bank, financial planners say. Once you’re free of debt and ready to grow your savings, you can look to financial services companies for investment advice, including banks (Bank of America, Wells Fargo), insurers (State Farm, Allstate and others) and brokers. Good luck!

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How to Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Here are five tips to help you keep your resolution.

Are you making a resolution this year? Do you want to lose weight, gain a new skill or organize your house? Whatever your resolution is, here are some tips to help you stick to it throughout the year. 1. Make it attainable. Be sure that your resolution is attainable. Sticking to your monthly budget is attainable—making a million dollars may not be. 2. Tell everyone. If you tell everyone about your resolution, you are more likely to keep it. If you want to quit smoking, you can even go as far as telling your friends that you'll give them $50 if they catch you lighting up. 3. Be specific. If you want to get fit in the new year, set a specific goal. For example, instead of saying you want to get fit, say you want to lose 10 pounds and tone …

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8 Ways to Beat Stress in 2013

Is your New Year's resolution to de-stress already stressing you out? Here are some tips to help you unwind.

2013 will bring lots of New Year's resolutions, and the stress of keeping them up along with it.   Dr. Megan Hood, a clinical psychologist with an expertise in stress management at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, said trying to attain a more stress-free existence is a pretty popular goal around the holidays and the new year. But staying away from stress is not as simple as making a New Year’s Eve wish. “That tends to be a common goal, a nice broad goal,” Hood said. “But it also tends to be challenging.” Still, Hood has some tips to keep stress at bay.

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From the Editor's Desk

Who's Going Green in the New Year?

Have you made your 2012 resolutions? What will you do to achieve them?

Happy New Year Smyrna-Vinings and here's wishing you all the best in 2012! As you can see from the accompanying video and photos, today’s Noon Year's Eve celebration hosted by the City of Smyrna and Radio Disney at the Smyrna Community Center was big fun for all. That party is done, but there’s still time to set personal resolutions before the New Year’s Eve celebration sets in. Your resolutions may be in the form of grandiose gestures—a vow to be a better spouse, for example—or be tied to a specific act, such losing weight, getting out of debt or quitting smoking. What are some of your New Year’s resolutions for 2012? What will you do to achieve them? Tell us in the comments. At first I thought I wouldn’t make any because I'm not going to…

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Resolve for a healthier you in 2012

In striving for better health, instead of one big resolution, try 10 little ones. You can implement them all at once or one per week for the first few months of the year.

By Ian Lee, Health Castle We've all done it: made a big, fat New Year's resolution that we swore up and down we'd stick to. And we did stick to it—for about six weeks. So what's the secret to making resolutions you can actually stick to throughout the entire year? According to dietitian Gloria Tsang, author of the new book Go UnDiet: 50 Small Actions for Lasting Weight Loss and founder of nutrition network HealthCastle.com, the key is to skip the overambitious resolutions that often leave us miserable and frustrated and focus on small, achievable resolutions that add up to create dramatic, long-lasting results. "You can't feast your way through the holidays and then expect to give up all sugar on January 1," Tsang said in a press release…

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Faith Files

Every Day is a New Beginning

We don't have to wait on a new year for a fresh start, God's mercies are fresh every day.

With Smyrna-Vinings Patch recently celebrating its one-year birthday and the fact that 2012 is rapidly approaching, new beginnings have been on my mind a lot this week. We all long for fresh starts from our past and, often times, we look at each birthday or beginning of the New Year on Jan. 1 as the perfect time to turn over a new leaf. But what if we didn’t wait for the calendar to cue us for our new beginnings? What if we truly began looking at each new day as a chance for a fresh start? My birthday is at the end of December and, as I get older, each one comes to represent less of a celebration and more an evaluation — a point when I take stock of the year of life I just finished. What are some things I did wrong and could do better? …

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