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One tick of the clock, one famous ball-drop in Times Square, and another year will officially begin.

Of course, in the time it took to write that intro an infinite number of new beginnings have taken place. Any moment, every moment is the right time for change. Yet we, as a rule, tend to wait for some magic moment – some rock-star, light show, fireworks kind of moment – to re-begin.

It seems that I’ve been waiting around for the first of January since the middle of November. I went off my low-carb diet about the time I had my colonoscopy. For the record, I was REALLY hungry after that “cleansi...