{"id":766,"date":"2018-01-02T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-01-02T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:16:15","slug":"a-new-year-new-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"A new year, new resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love new years resolutions, and the constant inventiveness that goes with learning how to change one&#8217;s behaviors.  It&#8217;s a time to think about who I want to become, and how to rebalance the weights on my path.  This year&#8217;s crop has a couple things for socialization, a couple things for exercise, and a big one for building out my online presence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn the names of everyone at GRI by the end of January.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Take a dance class with Flame.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Try out a &#8220;tracking your steps&#8221; app (suggestions welcome!).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>If I don&#8217;t exercise before an opportunity to have dessert, I must refuse.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>If I haven&#8217;t contributed to a social media by the end of the day, I have to do it before sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last one is going to be distributed mostly between this blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2A5epB6\">my professional blog<\/a>, and Twitter, and will range from simple reposts to longer contributions to personal messages.  When I reunited with my coin system, I&#8217;ll drive it that way.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;if-then&#8221; form of the last two is a perversion of a good idea recently suggested somewhere (but I can&#8217;t find where): rather than set up a behavior change as a continuous demand, identify a situation where the problem occurs and decide on a new course of action when presented with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love new years resolutions, and the constant inventiveness that goes with learning how to change one&#8217;s behaviors. It&#8217;s a time to think about who I want to become, and how to rebalance the weights on my path. This year&#8217;s crop has a couple things for socialization, a couple things for exercise, and a big &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new year, new 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-766","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\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}