8 Ways to Simplify Your Life in 2012

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Tip #1 Focus your new year’s resolutions

Got a long list of ways you want to overhaul your life? Simplify it and you’ll tick off more by year’s end, says Kelly McGonigal, PhD, a health psychologist at Stanford University and author of The Willpower Instinct. Setbacks are inevitable while making a change, she says, "but what’s important is to not let one failure turn into an off week or month." There are ways to prioritize so you get real results:

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