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Your financial goals for the next year are set.On the list are things like “pay off credit cards” and “save for retirement.” You’ll be putting some money away for your business or for emergencies.

The first one was easily dealt with.You plucked it and threw it away, and made a mental note: buy hair dye. But then that one gray strand was accompanied by others, followed by wrinkles and in an increasing number of failing body parts.

You’re not going to do it anymore. You’re not going to haul your carcass out of bed at 5 o’dark in the morning, throw down some coffee and dash out the door so you can make it look like you slept at your desk.

Your mother said you should be ashamed of yourself. And you were. Call it a rite of passage. Call it a dare, peer pressure, wanting to seem cool, or just because you were a dumb kid, but when you wrapped your fingers around that first shiny item, palmed it, and walked away, the heart-pounding thrill of stealing from a store was incredibly powerful. So was the embarrassment of getting caught.

I was sitting in a restaurant when the waitress noticed that I was wearing a pair of TOMS and we instantly struck up a conversation on the merits of the shoes, how many pairs we had, etc... Do you own a pair of TOMS? For the uninformed, these are canvas shoes but shoes with a purpose. For every pair you purchase, TOMS donates a new pair of shoes to a child in a developing country.