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With the beginning of a new year, come new resolutions. Many of us are once again, looking to better our lives by adding more to it.  Before you embark on your goals, I suggest you take a step-back and take stock of your current inventory.  Look at the areas in your life where you can have less, instead of more.  By removing, substituting or decreasing particular factors in your life, you will put yourself in a better position to add the new habits and goals that you desire.  Remember, a masterpiece is first started on a blank canvas.  You can't create the masterpiece of your life if your canvas is already cluttered with paint.