{"id":1644,"date":"2010-12-28T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2010-12-28T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:13:31","slug":"resolutions-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/12\/28\/resolutions-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ny-image3.etsy.com\/il_fullxfull.197827395.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Get Some Stuff Done\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/63242982\/feels-good-to-get-some-stuff-done-1\">Feels Good to Get Some Work Done poster<\/a> by Mary Kate McDevitt<\/h5>\n<p>I get pretty nostalgic during the last few days before the new year, even more so when I flip through my moleskine diary and prepare a new one for some challenging time ahead (hello dog-eared pages and coffee stains!) <\/p>\n<p>So instead of a new years resolution list, I thought I&#8217;d see how I fared compared last year. The list wasn&#8217;t drawn up in one sitting &#8212; I added to it throughout the year; all littered throughout the pages of my trusty journal (you can read about my obsession with lists over on this <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/06\/04\/review-lists\">book review<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Work smarter (and harder)<\/li>\n<li>Get more rest in between work (can you see a pattern forming already?)<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to say no gracefully, to save my sanity (and accepting that I can&#8217;t do it all)<\/li>\n<li>Figure out priorities and focus, focus, focus! (I hope to nail this one in 2011)<\/li>\n<li><del>Sleep earlier<\/del> <span class=\"caps\">YES<\/span>!<\/li>\n<li><del>Get away from emails and stop checking it every 15 minutes<\/del> Done! This was one of the easiest resolutions of the year &#8212; I only turn to my inbox for a few hours, and answering emails are done at one go every few days.<\/li>\n<li><del>Hang out with more friends<\/del> I did (mostly due to ticking off #6, haha!) and it was a blast!<\/li>\n<li><del>Fix up my non-existent kitchen and buy a fridge<\/del> Done and done! Which leads me to resolution #9&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to cook (right now I&#8217;m limited to spaghetti, pasta bakes and a couple of dishes!)<\/li>\n<li><del>Made sure the dogs are well behaved<\/del> Cesar Millan helped!<\/li>\n<li><del>Read more<\/del> oh heck yes (and <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/article\/books\">this<\/a> proves it)<\/li>\n<li>Travel more, even if it&#8217;s just for a day trip (don&#8217;t get me started on wanderlust!)<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to dance salsa again (Sigh.)<\/li>\n<li>Focus on making more art (this is yet again on this year&#8217;s list &#8212; although I was <a href=\"http:\/\/amyngstudio.com\">commissioned for illustrations<\/a> this year, yay!)<\/li>\n<li><del>Find the perfect moisturizer for my sensitive skin<\/del> Found it! Olay&#8217;s Total Effects Gentle SPF15 &#8212; my grandmother used it since she was 60 (she&#8217;s now 85) and she looks amazing!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>If you had just one thing you&#8217;d want to change in 2011, what would it be? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">EDIT<\/span>:<\/strong> I think I&#8217;m going to leave this up as the last post for 2010 &#8212; as Kate already mentioned, the one thing that stands out is that I&#8217;m trying to enjoy my life a little more. Which is what I&#8217;ll be doing exactly right now. <\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful start to the new year and I&#8217;ll see you in 2011! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Resolutions 2011\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/12\/28\/resolutions-2011\/\" aria-label=\"More on Resolutions 2011\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}