Teamwork, Not Competition How are your New Year’s Resolutions going? I had gained some weight over the holidays, and now I am working to take it all off. I know that I can do it, because I have a team who encourages and believes in me. In fact, I had tried for years to lose and keep off weight, but it never stuck until I realized that the team approach was an important component in my struggle. So now I go to meetings and surround myself with people who know I can do what

My husband and I put up our outside seasonal lights in a flash this year. We laughed the whole time as we reminisced about previous years and the hours it would take us to get the lights ready and then put them up, all the while hoping that they would all stay lit. The big difference was that we had made the change last year to LED lights. Not only do they stay lit if one light goes out, but they use less energy. What is not to love about them? It got me thinking about al