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Feb 2021
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Ep. 314: Re-Engage with Your Resolutions...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
About this episode

We talk about the 21 strategies that can help us re-engage with our resolutions, discuss a hack about helping people to give gifts (to avoid disappointment), and talk to Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonus about how humor can help us to engage more productively with other people.

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