{"id":67,"date":"2014-01-01T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-06-15T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:57:11","slug":"2014-new-years-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/2014-new-years-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2014.jpg\" alt=\"2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Nope, not a typo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m aiming for a New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revolution! <!--more--><br \/>\nBorrowed from the AT&amp;T commercial, I kind of like the idea of a personal revolution instead of a resolution.\u00c2\u00a0 I make, and break, resolutions every year.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to make things happen vs. wanting them to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this change began in 2013, with the formation of the Leesburg Writers Group, which came together during National Novel Writing Month.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made a conscious effort to write and read more.\u00c2\u00a0 And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m studying hard with multiple how-to writing books.<\/p>\n<p>But for 2014, I want to see results.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been through too many versions of this post now where I say I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to do A, and instead do F.\u00c2\u00a0 For 2014, these are must-do\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Morning Pages:\u00c2\u00a0 3 hand written pages every morning before I do anything else.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started and stopped this process a few times now.\u00c2\u00a0 I will hold myself to doing this every day, including tracking my progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Mandatory Word Count:\u00c2\u00a0 Writing a minimum of 500 words a day or 3500 words a week.\u00c2\u00a0 Minimum, but I will push for more.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The Morning Pages do not factor into this word count.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve set up a tracking spreadsheet to hold myself accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Getting Healthy:\u00c2\u00a0 Working Out 4 Days a week, sticking to the meal plan, and getting enough sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Beginning with Thanksgiving, and ending with Christmas and a wicked sinus infection, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made too many excuses to eat whatever crap food I felt like.\u00c2\u00a0 Feeling unhealthy (and for me, looking unhealthy) depletes my energy and puts me in a funk, which kills my motivation and derails my productivity.\u00c2\u00a0 Enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Today starts a renewed focus on eating healthy, getting on the treadmill and bike, and getting 7 hours of sleep a night (yes, I get less now).<\/p>\n<p>So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my plan for my 2014 revolution.\u00c2\u00a0 What have you vowed to do in 2014?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on Spare Time Writer dot Com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Nope, not a typo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m aiming for a New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revolution!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stwposts","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}