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Turkey Leftovers, Easy Meals and Setting Up Auto Pilot for your Brain

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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are locked and loaded for the remaining weeks until we can all breathe a big sigh of relief and move on to 2025. In fact, after three Thanksgiving dinners under my belt this year (that’s what happens when you write for a newspaper) I’m already reaching burnout. It’s so easy to become stressed and overwhelmed from now until December 30th. But wait! Have I got a plan for you!

It's a kind of a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ thing.

I’m terrible planner. I have at least three calendars: a big wall calendar, a …