{"id":2008,"date":"2012-09-27T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2012-09-27T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:36:17","slug":"hello-september-or-make-that-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/hello-september-or-make-that-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello September, or Make That Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, this is a post that I started writing several days ago. And this is the part where I pause to think about the days when I wrote daily making up all sorts of stories in my mind, creating worlds and whatnot. These days I feel good if I manage to lock the door before falling asleep. But, I don’t like to wallow; I like to think about goals! That’ right birthday goals!<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m a bit late, as my birthday was a few weeks ago, but my birthday goals have always been about movement, not about perfection.<\/p>\n

But before jumping into the new goals, I have been thinking about last year’s goals. This past year, I achieved more of the goals that I set up than ever before since I began doing the birthday goals. Huge swaths of this past year were tough. This makes me proud of what I was able to accomplish. In fact, I don’t have any regrets about reaching some but not others. Even the salad goal…which I was so close to reaching, but couldn’t pull together in the end. 21 of 33. Cool.<\/p>\n

This year, some of the goals are the same as those from last year, but they’re also different. I am more interested in creating overall balance than in ticking of particular goals. The goals are meant to help me get there.<\/p>\n

Let the games<\/del>\u00a0goals begin<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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