{"id":1,"date":"2017-01-01T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-02-23T02:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T02:07:21","slug":"why-i-dont-make-annual-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/why-i-dont-make-annual-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t make annual resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost that time of the year when it seems like everybody makes one or more resolutions for the new year (and then, days or weeks later, breaks them).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do this for a simple reason. A number changing on the calendar is a poor reason to make big changes. It&#8217;s setting yourself up for failure.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to improve something in your life, do it because you want the better results on the other end. Do it becase it&#8217;s the right thing to do. Do it for somebody else, or do it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>But go do it. Today.<\/p>\n<p>-m<\/p>\n<p>Want more hard-won tips on improving your focus and life? Join me on my quest to write some of this down. Subscribe to my infrequent mailing list.<\/p>\n<div class='_form_1'><\/div><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/geekthoughts.activehosted.com\/f\/embed.php?static=0&id=1&6A9034BB9DAE8&nostyles=0&preview=0'><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost that time of the year when it seems like everybody makes one or more resolutions for the new&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/why-i-dont-make-annual-resolutions\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I don&#8217;t make annual resolutions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement","tag-focus","tag-resolution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fZzN-1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Simpleicons_Business_ink-bottle-and-a-feather-to-write.svg_.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}