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    8 Ways to Set Goals and Stay Motivated

    Every new year, we use our resolutions to admit to the world ways in which we want to better ourselves. For a lot of us, it’s about being healthier, wealthier, and wiser. But, by the time we’ve gotten all of the turkey and wine out of our system, our resolutions have begun to waver and fade. Here are some tips to bolster your determination without burning yourself out: 1. Think of it as a Challenge A “goal” is an ideal image that floats above our heads, nice and neat like a finished painting. For all its positive connotations, thinking of a resolution as a goal can disconnect it from the…

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    Top 10 Canadian Albums of 2012

    One Great Year for CanCon! By Daniel Polowin 10.  Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas After a somewhat unfortunate decade, this septuagenarian Canadian icon staged a comeback in 2012 with a worldwide tour and this platinum-selling album. Cohen is at top form in this, his first album of new material in eight years. Accompanying the bluesy instrumentation and the smoky baritone vocals we’ve come to expect from Cohen are some of his most moving lyrics yet. Cohen returns to his familiar meditations on love, sex, and God but with the added poignancy of a poet in the autumn of his life. 9.  A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red Combining electronic, hip hop,…