{"id":2078,"date":"2012-01-01T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:36:06","slug":"first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF MY LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often heard the adage that how you spend the first day of the year is how you will spend ALL of it, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessarily true. However, if it is, I will be sleeping, eating, reading, listening to music, doing laundry, having computer issues and relaxing. Which, apart from working and my social life, is basically a thorough summary of how I spent LAST year so maybe the adage is backwards! <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really do New Year&#8217;s resolutions&#8230;I find, like most people, that the motivation disappears quickly, and so I try to set some manageable goals instead. Some of them are only in my head, where I can keep them to myself, because really I consider most such resolutions to be extremely personal and no one else&#8217;s business. But some goals are things that need to be put out there, where I can not only see them, but also have them acknowledged and reaffirmed by others.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my manageable goals were written in my last post, the last post of 2011, which makes them seem to be part of the last year and because I want to be sure to note them again for myself for THIS year, I&#8217;m repeating them here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WALK WALK WALK<\/li>\n<li>Midsummer with my entire first family in northern Germany!<\/li>\n<li>Possible family vacation to Greece<\/li>\n<li>Thorough clutter cleaning in the whole house<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That first one seems to show up in my goals\/resolutions list every year&#8230;I don&#8217;t know why I can&#8217;t make a habit of it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, I have some other goals for 2012:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rejuvenate my creative side<\/li>\n<li>Consider happiness as a given<\/li>\n<li>Discourage negativity in myself and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recently read an interesting and thought-provoking book, <i>The Happiness Project<\/i> by Gretchen Rubin, and while I don&#8217;t have the time or inclination to start such a thorough project on the same kind of scale, it did give me a lot of things to think about. I intend to explore and adopt some of her ideas in my own life and see how much I can stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Some people pick a word for the year and try to apply it in all aspects of their life. I find that a little limiting in some ways&#8230;it&#8217;s the same feeling I get when someone (usually my daughter, who is preoccupied with favorites right now) asks me what my favorite (insert category) is. I find it extremely difficult to give a single, definitive answer to those types of questions. How can I narrow it down when I have so MANY? I can&#8217;t even handle those &#8220;what 10 books would you want with you on a desert island&#8221; type games, much less having to choose only ONE.<\/p>\n<p>She asked me the other day what my favorite song was, and I couldn&#8217;t give her an answer. Finally, frustrated, she said, &#8220;Okay, well how about just ONE of your favorites?!&#8221; and when I finally extracted a song to tell her (<i>Build Me Up Buttercup<\/i>), her response was a withering teenage, &#8220;Seriously??&#8221; *grin*<\/p>\n<p>But I guess if I had to pick a word for 2012, I would pick &#8220;stretch&#8221; since that seems to be applicable to many areas of my life: personal, home, work, social, creative, spiritual, etc. It&#8217;s the first day of a new year, and the first day of the rest of my life and a good stretch is how I started it (late late LATE in the morning), so I&#8217;ll go with that and see where it gets me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often heard the adage that how you spend the first day of the year is how you will spend ALL of it, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessarily true. However, if it is, I will be sleeping, eating, reading, listening to music, doing laundry, having computer issues and relaxing. Which, apart from working and my social life, is basically a thorough summary of how I spent LAST year so maybe the adage is backwards! I don&#8217;t really do New Year&#8217;s resolutions&#8230;I find, like most people, that the motivation disappears quickly, and so I try to set some manageable goals&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek","tag-puttingwordstogether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}