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OVER the Christmas break, I got to catch up with some old friends and reminisce about what we’ve been up to over the years. A few of us had attended the same martial arts school, which I wrote about in this column previously, and we ended up talking about the lessons we learned during that time.

At this time of year, people often talk about setting goals. There’s no shortage of advice on how to make resolutions stick, especially beyond February – the time they often become distant memories. As my friends and I talked, we remembered an exercise from those martial arts days that ties in with the idea of trying something new and seeing it through to the end.

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