{"id":660,"date":"2011-01-01T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:56:13","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not usually big on New Year&#8217;s resolutions, but there are and have been a few changes I&#8217;ve been wanting to make, so what better time than at the start of a new year? I want to focus on my own personal development while getting myself to a place where I am happier, healthier, and more in control of my life and my future.<\/p>\n<p>So without any further ado, here are some resolutions:<\/p>\n<p><b>Personal life<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embrace spontaneity and be open to new opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Become more confident with both myself and my decisions<\/li>\n<li>Focus on positive actions and solutions instead of dwelling on negative ones<\/li>\n<li>Stop wasting time on useless things, make better use of my free time<\/li>\n<li>Continue to travel and see more of the world (hopefully Hawaii, Key West, Costa Rica and Cambodia\/Vietnam this year; New Year&#8217;s in Palm Desert, and the following weekend in Santa Barbara &#8230; great start!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Health<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve my yoga by taking formal classes<\/li>\n<li>Begin taking art courses to get my creative juices flowing<\/li>\n<li>Continue running and run in at least one race, 10K or more<\/li>\n<li>Get outside more often, especially hiking<\/li>\n<li>Start doing periodic &#8220;mini&#8221; fasts or detoxes (day where I only eat raw fruits and veggies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Work<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve my focus to foster more productivity, while creating more &#8220;open&#8221; time to work on personal projects<\/li>\n<li>Focus on getting more side work and building a web development business, hopefully to work for myself by 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m still thinking about what to add to this list. How about you? What resolutions or changes do you want to make in the New Year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not usually big on New Year&#8217;s resolutions, but there are and have been a few changes I&#8217;ve been wanting to make, so what better time than at the start of a new year? I want to focus on my own personal development while getting myself to a place where I am happier, healthier, and more in control of my life and my future.<\/p>\n<p>So without any further ado, here are some resolutions:<\/p>\n<p><b>Personal life<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Embrace spontaneity and be open to new opportunities<br \/>\nBecome more confident with both myself and my decisions<br \/>\nFocus on positive actions and solutions instead of dwelling on negative ones<br \/>\nStop wasting time on useless things, make better use of my free time<br \/>\nContinue to travel and see more of the world (hopefully Hawaii, Key West, Costa Rica and Cambodia\/Vietnam this year; New Year&#8217;s in Palm Desert, and the following weekend in Santa Barbara &#8230; great start!)<\/p>\n<p><b>Health<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Improve my yoga by taking formal [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/new-years-resolutions\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[199,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}