Resolutions, Failing Upwards
Jan 10th, 2005 · It's "Day 10" for anyone who made a New Year's resolution. Day to Day humorist Brian Unger provides a guide for keeping your promises: "Defining Resolutions Downward, So You Can Fail Upward,"
Jan 10th, 2005 · It's "Day 10" for anyone who made a New Year's resolution. Day to Day humorist Brian Unger provides a guide for keeping your promises: "Defining Resolutions Downward, So You Can Fail Upward,"
Jan 1st, 2005 · Weekend All Things Considered presents voices of people around the country with reflections on 2004 and their hopes for the new year.
Dec 28th, 2004 · As the year 2004 comes to a close, we take a look at resolutions. How do you make one, and how often do they stick?
Dec 27th, 2004 · It's such a cliché to think about the New Year as time to start afresh and reinvent oneself -- but commentator and philosopher Alain de Botton never lets a cliché stop him from musing about the way we choose to live our lives. Today, he starts the first in a three-part series with an argument in favor of New Year's resolutions.
Dec 15th, 2004 · California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to pass an emergency resolution that critics say will allow employers to avoid giving workers a lunch break. Opponents of the bill claim the governor doesn't have the power to change state's labor laws. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.
Sep 21st, 2004 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom, over 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. NPR's Michele Norris talks with physicist Stephen J. Pennycook about the microscopic breakthrough.
Jun 7th, 2004 · NPR's Tavis Smiley kicks off his biannual Motivation Series with motivational speaker and best-selling author Les Brown. We also hear from listeners about how they are doing on their New Year's resolutions.
Jan 1st, 2001 · NPR's Nancy Marshall reports on the tradition of New Year's resolutions and how philosophers from Hobbes to Plato might help us keep them.