{"id":3486,"date":"2018-01-31T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2018-01-31T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T15:39:28","slug":"new-year-evolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3486","title":{"rendered":"New Year Evolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Isaac Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018 is the year I\u2019m: losing weight, learning French, working harder, getting better, running faster, saving this, sorting that, starting a new chapter. It\u2019s the year I\u2019ll ___<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, how well is that going?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well if you\u2019ve successfully navigated the first three weeks of a \u2018Dry January\u2019 statistically you\u2019re already a minority. In 2017, though 40% of Americans made resolutions, just 9% of us felt like these were successfully achieved by the end of December (Statistic Brain Research Institute 2017). Where are we going wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Firstly it must be acknowledged that we\u2019re on the right track. Reflection, introspection and setting goals are all great skills which take vital steps toward self-improvement. However, add equal parts of wild ambition and prior commitment, couple with a lack of planning and shake with the cold nature of success or failure &#8211; the New Year\u2019s resolution is hard cocktail to stomach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First of all let\u2019s take the pressure off. Don\u2019t wait for one day of the year to solve problems, there\u2019s no logic in it. \u201c2018 \u2013The year that everything changed\u201d, it\u2019s not even a good memoir title! Short term goals are both more achievable and less definitive. Making ambitious targets is positive but be realistic here, let\u2019s not forget our \u2018tortoise and hare\u2019 clich\u00e9s. Putting a year between you and where you want to be is not a positive first move. And what if you do fail? I suppose that\u2019s a question for 2019\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2018 resolve to evolve, take a pragmatic and dynamic approaches to break down the overwhelming. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Isaac Davis 2018 is the year I\u2019m: losing weight, learning French, working harder, getting better, running faster, saving this, sorting that, starting a new chapter. It\u2019s the year I\u2019ll ___ So, how well is that going? Well if you\u2019ve successfully navigated the first three weeks of a \u2018Dry January\u2019 statistically you\u2019re already a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}