{"id":618,"date":"2015-01-13T02:06:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2015-01-13T02:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T02:06:48","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"New Years Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love New Years resolutions.  A ritual opportunity to adjust the choices that make up life.  Like everyone, I struggle (read: give up frequently) on them, but part of the joy is to understand that process and resolve better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m expecting a big semester, starting soon: my Complexity Science course, bigger and better; finishing my thesis; being substantively involved in three large projects and several small ones; and getting a job.  My theory of organization this time is to schedule&#8211; my work days are specified to the hour on the projects I hope to finish by the end of the semester:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1yduwaz\" alt=\"schedule\" title=\"schedule\"><\/p>\n<p>My resolutions are mostly following the same idea, recognizing time less as a limiting factor than as an organizing principle:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Additional morning exercise (15 min. \/ week)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Personal or professional blogging (30 min. \/ week)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Review my colleagues interests and activities (30 min. \/ week) [next year follow-up: usefully encode my network]<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Write to distant friends (30 min. \/ week)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Deep reflection on goals and activities (1 hr. \/ week)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Go for a hike outside the city in every month [next year follow-up: hike the same trail every month of the year]<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Read a journal cover-to-cover every week [next year follow-up: become a regular reader of one journal]<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love New Years resolutions. A ritual opportunity to adjust the choices that make up life. Like everyone, I struggle (read: give up frequently) on them, but part of the joy is to understand that process and resolve better. I&#8217;m expecting a big semester, starting soon: my Complexity Science course, bigger and better; finishing my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Years Resolutions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12,11],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-ifttt","tag-lj","tag-transience-divine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}