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Make January mean something else

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Back to work: With the festive break over, the new year is now well underway PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

For many people, anytime immediately after the end of a previous year, is a time for recollection, resolutions and the worry about perceived overindulgence and overspending in the previous month.

For some, it may even be the time they start to dread the increase in their age (and ours too) which is bound to happen sooner or later! To counteract this propensity to descend into self-flagellation, I ask that this year, at its beginning, we should do things differently.

For starters, let us be kind to ourselves and lay aside the embarrassment of missing the target or the plans, or the failure of our brightest star to shine in the previous year.

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Make January mean something else

For many people, anytime immediately after the end of a previous year, is a time for recollection, resolutions and the worry about perceived overindulgence and overspending in the previous month.

A promising step for public schools, but...

Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing at BFA?

New public co. to transform school infrastructure

Parly rejects motion on judicial officers' 'security unit'

Keorapetse rules on Moswaane's exaggerated counterfeit medicines claims

Small stock theft hits Serowe

Woman torches boyfriend's house after finding another woman

Dog found feeding on foetal remains in Nkoyaphiri

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