| 1. Make a promise to spend time with neglected | | | | off the hook for 20 minutes may not be setting the |
| children - especially if they're your own. Yes, | | | | best example. |
| between working, running errands and flexing your | | | | 4. Go green. There's lots of ways to benefit the |
| pecs in the mirror, time can seem like an enemy. But | | | | environment. Do less laundry; wear more deodorant. |
| by hanging around with your children, you may find | | | | Turn off the lights; you can also justify the purchase |
| that you can serve as a role model, especially if you | | | | of an energy-star LDC television. Reduce your use of |
| share common interests such as flexing in the mirror. | | | | harmful plastic shopping bags; eat your groceries on |
| 2. Promise to stop trying to live vicariously through | | | | the way home. Use low flush toilets; the smell is |
| your child. So you never learned to hit the curveball | | | | worth the savings. |
| and you struck out to end your college ball team's | | | | 5. Be awesomely good. Obey the speed limit, give |
| chance at a championship. It doesn't mean that hurling | | | | money to charity, drop 15 pounds, adopt an |
| 80-mile-per hour fastballs at your four-year-old | | | | endangered species, build a homeless shelter, find the |
| daughter will make you any happier (long-term, that | | | | cure for the common cold, take up smoking then |
| is). | | | | quit, find out if it's true that anything that doesn't kill |
| 3. Stop mocking telemarketers. Everyone has a | | | | you only makes you stronger. |
| pastime, but emphatically feigning interest in a new | | | | It's that easy. |
| long-distance calling plan and then leaving the phone | | | | |