{"id":474,"date":"2009-01-11T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2009-01-11T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:09:00","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Years Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SWpUMvmS07I\/AAAAAAAABQ4\/WYj3vbNk8-U\/s1600-h\/new+year.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290133290212316082\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 228px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SWpUMvmS07I\/AAAAAAAABQ4\/WYj3vbNk8-U\/s320\/new+year.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I love resolutions! I think it&#8217;s great to at least give it a shot.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am a firm believer in incrementalism when it comes to self improvement. An obvious instance of this in my own life was on my mission. I was to get up of my own accord at 6:30am without fail, seven days a week, 365 days a year. At first, it was a week or two on and a week or two off. But then slowly it came into line. A good habit doesn&#8217;t take all at once! I bought a huge silver alarm clock with the two bells on top. I put it all the way across the room so that I would have to get out of bed to turn it off. By then end of the two years, I would wake up naturally at 6:30am.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Resolutions:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat more healthy (this is general on purpose). Almost anything would be more healthy than what I&#8217;m eating now.<\/li>\n<li>Fast six times (working up to twelve for 2010!).<\/li>\n<li>Spend more time with my kids. This one is the most serious of them. I do it already off and on, here and there, but with great frequency. I&#8217;m talking about daddy-daughter\/son dates. At least twice a month.<\/li>\n<li>Cut out the mild profanity.<\/li>\n<li>I have three more but they&#8217;re really personal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>It&#8217;s better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Better to do something half-assed than not at all. My wife hates that one. She says now and again that I did something half-assed. I remonstrate saying it&#8217;s at least three-quarter-assed nowadays.  So much for the mild profanity one!  I&#8217;m going to start tomorrow, really.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>But seriously speaking, a general conference talk which has been of great illumination to me talks about quest for betterment without beating one&#8217;s-self up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/ldsorg\/v\/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&amp;locale=0&amp;sourceId=0e6027cd3f37b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&amp;hideNav=1\">can be read here.<\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love resolutions! I think it&#8217;s great to at least give it a shot. . I am a firm believer in incrementalism when it comes to self improvement. An obvious instance of this in my own life was on my mission. I was to get up of my own accord at 6:30am without fail, seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}