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New Year's Resolution: Build Your Strengths

By Susan Nolen-Hoeksema on January 5, 2010 in The Power of Women

Tis the season for New Year's Resolutions! Often these resolutions focus on fixing what we think is wrong with us: women in particular are extraordinarily hard on themselves, preoccupied with all the ways they are not good enough. I believe, and research shows, that we would all do better if our New Year's Resolutions focused on building strengths rather than on fixing flaws. Read More

Build Your Strengths

Submitted by Belle Johnson on March 23, 2012 - 9:50am.

Great article,
Taking small steps every day to reach your goals is the only way:)

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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is a professor of psychology at Yale University and the author of The Power of Women.

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