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7 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,January 9,2020 insidehalton.com DE RANGO PHARMACY INC 2501 Third Line | 905-465-3000 Open 24 hours | 7 Days a Week DE RANGO PHARMACY INC 478 Dundas Street West | 905-257-9737 Canada Post www.shoppersdrugmart.ca Fabio De Rango Pharmacist/Owner Voted Oakville's Favourite Pharmacist & Pharmacy • Patient Counselling • Complete Diabetic Care • Home Visits • Consultations • Free RX Delivery • Patient Counselling • Complete Diabetic Care • Home Visits • Pharmacogenetics • Free RX Delivery An Award Winning Oakville Pharmacy PLATINUMWINNER Pharmacist - Fabio De Rango Drug Store/ Pharmacy Please email photo and information to Kelli Kosonic: kkosonic@starmetrolandmedia.com Call: 905-234-1018 Attention Parents of all babies born in the year 2019! 2019 Honour Roll The DEADLINE for Booking and Material Submissions is Friday, January 24, 2020 The PUBLICATION date is Thursday, January 30, 2020Thursday, January 30, 2020 Submit a COLOUR PHOTO along with the Baby's Full Name and Date of Birth. The price is $35.00 +hst Please note that payment must be received before the photo can be in the feature. Date of Birth. Please note that payment must be received before the photo can be in the feature. 1200 Speers Rd., Unit 12, Oakville, Ont. L6L 2X4 (905) 845 - 1408 | Fax (905) 845 - 5931 | ricky@rickywong.ca Ricky Wong CPA, CA, MBA, B. Eng Ricky WongRicky Wong DIAMONDDIDIDIDIDIAMAMAMAMAMONONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONONONONONDDD DIAMONDDIDIDIDIDIDIAMAMAMAMAMONONONONONONONDDDD Voted Best Accountant by Oakville Beaver Readersoted Best Accountant by Oakville Beaver ReadersVoted Best Accountant by Oakville Beaver ReadersV for 11 Consecutive Years For more information please check our website www.rickywong.ca •Accounting •Auditing • Taxation ANIMAL TALES A swallowtail butterfly unexpectedly hatched in an Oakville home plant on New Year's Eve, prompting the homeowner to ask how to keep it alive this winter. Got a great local animal photo to share? Send it to sleblanc@metroland.com, along with a brief description. Peter Fischer photo I ask you - why is it your New Year's resolu- tion list always becomes yet another crumpled bit of detritus at the bottom of the drawer of shame in the kitchen, languishing among the dead batteries, loose screws, crispy elas- tic bands and wads of Ca- nadian Tire money? And when you redis- cover it again about mid- March you instantly get that pang of regret at not getting to even one of the ambitious, neatly num- bered items. Well the answer is sim-Well the answer is sim-W ple - lower your expecta- tions, make the goals shorter term, more spe- cific and something you can apply realistic time frames to. frames to. f Instead of something like, "Lose 200 pounds by June!" promise yourself to eat less between meals or do 10 knee bends each day. Make it a no-brainer. A tiny alteration in habits makes you hungry for more - more exercise, not cheesecake. Change comes from the inside, pressure comes from the outside. We always, inevitablyWe always, inevitablyW rebel against outside pressure. Here's a bigger one: in- stead of 20 things on your list, write one. Yes, only one. Let's say it's to learn to speak Italian. That's one of my goals for 2020. You write that one goal atYou write that one goal atY the top of the page. At the bottom you write how this will change your life - maybe it's exercising your mind, maybe it's widening your social cir- cles or maybe it'll make you feel wonderful being able to converse with lo- cals on your next vaca- tion. In any case, that is your goal and at the bottom is your visualization of how life will change - some- thing to fix in your mind. Then go back up to the top again and under the goal create a list of things you have to do to kick-start that goal: download a course, join an Italian club or buy an audio book to repeat in the car on the way to work. Whatever the list is, make it consecutive steps with each one building on the other with carved out moments to update and renew the pledge to your- self and, most important- ly, make progress. Try it. It'll bring a little therapy to your new de- cade. Happy New Year ev- eryone! Stephen Ilott is a pro- fessional home organizer with decluttering.ca and author of The Domestic Archaeologist. For more information, visit www.decluttering.ca or contact him at info@de- cluttering.ca or 416-460- 8098. A BETTER WAY TO CREATE A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION LIST OPINION BE REALISTIC ABOUT YOUR GOALS, WRITES ILOTT STEPHEN ILOTT Column