{"id":1756,"date":"2010-01-02T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2010-01-02T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:14:38","slug":"a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"A New Year…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Never have. I’ve never understood the purpose behind deciding on 1 day to do (or not do) things that should probably be resolved all year (all life?) long. Need more exercise? Why wait until 1\/1 to start? Need to eat better? Save more? Stop being a douche? Stop drinking so much? Stop taking drugs? Be nicer to people (these seem to be the common resolutions.) So WHY are you waiting? <\/em>Plus from what I’ve seen and heard – most people ditch that list by mid-January. Why annual gym memberships are a great business for the gyms…<\/p>\n

My new year’s list is more a “things to do” list. If you know me, you know I always one of these. Almost every day starts out with my daily list – my daily battleplan to attack the day. And my things to do list is always a live list. Always stuff to be done, always doing stuff, always more stuff that comes up and has to go on the list. That could almost be a George Carlin routine if you added some curse words. <\/p>\n

You could apply my same “why are you waiting?” to this as well. But again, if you know me at all, you know I am *always* doing stuff :) But there are projects I either newly thought of or never really put on the list but I want off the damn list and this will ensure they get done! <\/p>\n

Another section of my list is the “things to always make sure are done” section. This section isn’t the obvious junk like house cleaned, bills paid, dry cleaning dropped off\/picked up, etc etc. since that list is always running in my head on a permanent loop. No, it’s things like:<\/p>\n

take time to read every day if even just for 15-20 minutes.
\nbrush the huskies a little each day so they don’t hate you for 1 BIG brushing session :)
\nsit down and relax – stop running, running, running and not enjoying.
\nexercise every day.
\nspend time with my friends doing fun things – plan them!
\nlook at what you have and not what you don’t. And enjoy it. (this will however not<\/strong> make me not shop!)<\/p>\n

I need to keep this list in a place I can see it all the time. Because they are important things to remember and to do. I’ve been *pretty* good on most them all last year but want more of #5 and probably need to work more on #3. I definitely need to concentrate on putting more of an effort into relaxing a bit more…hey…that doesn’t sound so relaxing! ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Never have. I’ve never understood the purpose behind deciding on 1 day to do (or not do) things that should probably be resolved all year (all life?) long. Need more exercise? Why wait until 1\/1 to start? Need to eat better? Save more? Stop being a douche? Stop drinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,86],"tags":[620],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-silly-thoughts","tag-new-years-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}