The idea is to check often enough so that you are aware of what is happening with your investments, but not so often that you are constantly tempted to tinker with your portfolio.

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Do too much, as most overzealous new trainers try, and you not only prevent these changes from happening but often become discouraged and wind up giving up on a fitness program long before it ever had a chance of working!

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So when the officer told Jeanne that her son had been arrested, which was happening often to gay protesters, she was not entirely caught off guard.

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