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Friday, November 2, 2012

Fun Facts for New Year's: Wear Red Underwear, Lock Your Car and Eat Black-Eyed Peas

Check out these interesting fun facts and trivia about New Year's Eve.

If you're celebrating New Year's Eve this year and find a lull in the conversation, impress your family and friends with this New Year's trivia.

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9:24 am on Monday, December 3, 2012

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

7 Easy Steps to Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick

Most people give up on resolutions by March, but a few tricks can ensure you follow through with your 2012 goals.

Here we are again – a new year is upon us, and once again, millions of people will be making resolutions to improve their life. Most people tend to start the year with plenty of enthusiasm and determination, and then lose momentum as the year rolls on. In fact, by this time next year (actually, by March of next year) most people will have abandoned their resolutions. Here are seven tips to set realistic New Year's resolutions...and keep them: Best wishes on achieving your New Year's goals!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Resolution Success Starts with a Plan

Every New Year, people make resolutions. How successful a person is in following through depends upon whether they take positive steps to achieve their goals.

With the arrival of the New Year, the resolution-making begins. Whether it's losing weight, finding a better job, spending more time with loved ones or some other worthy goal, the list of things to do, to change or to quit gets written up. The key mistake people make when writing those resolutions for the New Year is that they set the expectations too high and want results too soon, according to a life coach and two fitness trainers. "One of the biggest things is people tend to make their goals too lofty," said Erik Walter, manager at Endure It!, a Naperville fitness training business for those interested in fitness and endurance sports. "When they see how hard it is to achieve them, they throw them out the window." That is a year-round …

Friday, December 30, 2011

Fun Facts for New Year's: Wear Red Underwear, Lock Your Car and Eat Black-Eyed Peas

Check out these interesting facts about New Year's Eve.

If you're celebrating New Year's Eve this year and find a lull in the conversation, impress your family and friends with this New Year's trivia.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

A Champagne Guide: Ring in the New Year with Some Bubbly

New Year's Eve is champagne's time to shine. WineStyles Bolingbrook discusses what types of champagne are best for specific occasions.

We'll soon be ringing in the New Year, a time when champagnes and sparkling wines rule the drink menu. Choices of these great sparklers can be overwhelming, so let's review which ones may be best for your New Year's Eve dinner or celebration.  Generally speaking, people refer to all sparkling wines as champagne. Actually, the only wines that can be called champagne are the ones that are produced in the Champagne region of France, hence the name.  Wines produced outside this region of France are called by different names. The primary grapes used to produce champagne are Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. There are now only five family-owned champagne houses in France, and Laurent-Perrier is the largest of the three.  Champagnes …

Teens Drink and Drive on NYE More than Other Holidays

A large majority said they would stop driving under the influence of alcohol or marijuana if asked by a passenger, according to a study by Liberty Mutual and Students Against Destructive Decisions.

Editor's note: The following information was provided in a press release from Liberty Mutual.  Teens are more likely to drink and drive on New Year's Eve than any other holiday, according to a study by Liberty Mutual Insurance and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions).  It's also traditionally one of the worst days of the year for alcohol-related car crashes and deaths for young drivers.  According to the survey of nearly 2,300 eleventh and twelfth graders, when teen drivers were asked how dangerous they feel certain events are for driving and the likelihood of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs on one of these events, New Year’s Eve topped both lists.  Holidays/Events % of teens that view event as very/extremely …

Suzanna Klein

7:47 am on Thursday, December 29, 2011

Throughout the year, I use news stories to try and influence my kids without lecturing or reciting statistics. A young man sentenced to prison for killing someone while driving drunk: it's more than about getting caught; he and the family have to live with that forever. The 30 something driver who crashed and a loved one was killed while driving high: an experienced driver likely not new to …   more ›

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Free Website Helps You Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Hold yourself accountable with e-mails you can schedule for the future.

Have a New Year's resolution? Want to increase your chances of actually keeping it? You can remind your future self of your year's aspirations via email with www.futureme.org.  This free website allows you to schedule future emails to yourself.  The first e-mail will be sent at least 30 days after the New Year. After that, you can schedule messages as frequently as you want. One you visit the website, there are only a few short steps you need to do to send yourself an email: (1) Type in your email address. (2) Fill in the subject line saying something like, "Hi – It's you from the past! Remember that promise you made me?" (3) Write yourself a message reminding yourself why you decided to set this goal in the first place! (4) Choose to make…

Monday, December 26, 2011

Start 2012 Off Right With One of These Local New Year's Celebrations

Say goodbye to 2011 and ring in the New Year with your choice of these local bar and restaurants special deals and packages.

WHAT: Ring in the New Year and celebrate 2011 with a countdown to 2012 including free appetizers, a champagne toast, horns, whistles, a DJ and dancing. Advance reservations are recommended. WHERE: BlackFinn    WHEN: 7 p.m. Dec. 31 COST: $25 MORE INFO: Email Casey at CDulny@BlackFinnChicago.com to reserve your booth, or visit the event page WHAT: Open bar, appetizers and live music will be on hand for this celebration. WHERE: City Gate Grill, 2020 Calamos Court WHEN: 8:30 p.m. Dec. 31 to 1 a.m. Jan. 1 COST: $65 MORE INFO: Call 630-718-1010 or visit City Gate Grille's website WHAT: The party at this dance club for people ages 16 to 25 will include party favors, hats, horns, leis and food buffet, as well as live video taping, a balloon drop, …

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Free Website Helps You Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Hold yourself accountable with e-mails you can schedule for the future.

Have a New Year's resolution? Want to increase your chances of actually keeping it? You can remind your future self of your year's aspirations via email with www.futureme.org.  This free website allows you to schedule future emails to yourself.  The first e-mail will be sent at least 30 days after the New Year. After that, you can schedule messages as frequently as you want. One you visit the website, there are only a few short steps you need to do to send yourself an email: (1) Type in your email address. (2) Fill in the subject line saying something like, "Hi – It's you from the past! Remember that promise you made me?" (3) Write yourself a message reminding yourself why you decided to set this goal in the first place! (4) Choose to make…

Friday, December 31, 2010

Resolution Success Starts with a Plan

Every New Year, people make resolutions. How successful a person is in following through depends upon whether they take positive steps to achieve their goals.

With the arrival of the New Year, the resolution-making begins. Whether it's losing weight, finding a better job, spending more time with loved ones or some other worthy goal, the list of things to do, to change or to quit gets written up. The key mistake people make when writing those resolutions for the New Year is that they set the expectations too high and want results too soon, according to a life coach and two fitness trainers. "One of the biggest things is people tend to make their goals too lofty," said Erik Walter, manager at Endure It!, a Naperville fitness training business for those interested in fitness and endurance sports. "When they see how hard it is to achieve them, they throw them out the window." That is a year-round …

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