I started writing this post earlier from the perspective that the holidays derail us…on our diets, on our budgets, on whatever it is we are working on. The holidays (from Thanksgiving through New Year’s) give us a license to eat, to shop and to well, just put our feet up. When I started writing however, I realized I was blaming the holidays for my errant behaviors this season. And that’s not entirely fair. No one put the cookies in my mouth or tied me into my snuggly warm bed so I couldn’t get to the gym in the morning. No one held a gun to my head in the storesĀ to buy those extra presents when I had bills to pay, or to wait until January to get that important project started that’s going to make me my millions. Nope. I did it all by myself. And I realized...

