{"id":8727,"date":"2012-01-02T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T02:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2012-01-03T08:44:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:44:47","slug":"last-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/last-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Year’s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I’ll post my new resolutions for 2012, but I thought I’d first do a quick review of those from last year.<\/p>\n

\"\"1. Spend 30 minutes every day in Scripture:<\/strong>\u00a0A lot of my time in 2011 was spent reading and studying Scripture, but I didn’t manage to achieve the quiet lectio divina<\/em> style of reading for which I was aiming.<\/p>\n

Final Grade: C<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em>2. More dancing:<\/strong>\u00a0I did quite a bit here. I taught a good handful of times, went out social dancing a few times, attended\u00a0Swing Diego<\/a>\u00a0and did a couple of months of West Coast Swing classes. However, I didn’t manage to settle into a regular pattern of dancing.<\/p>\n

Final Grade: D<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

3. No more rushing:<\/strong>\u00a0I think I really nailed this one. I had a busy year, but I didn’t overbook or frantically run about from appointment to appointment.<\/p>\n

Final Grade: A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4. No chocolate:<\/strong>\u00a0Did it. It was horrible. I love chocolate.<\/p>\n

Final Grade: A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5. Get into the best shape of my life:<\/strong>\u00a0At the beginning of the year I began keeping a closer eye on my diet. However, I didn’t really get into the way of regular exercise until towards the end of the year. I began running with John in the mornings but finally signed up for Bootcamp. Within two months of joining Bootcamp I lost 4% body fat and 8lbs. I go four or five times a week.<\/p>\n

I’m not yet in the greatest shape of my life, but I’m well on my way to getting there. I’ve signed up for the Warrior Dash in March, by which time I hope this resolution will be achieved…<\/p>\n

Final Grade: B<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

6. At least five minutes of guitar practice every day:<\/strong>\u00a0I haven’t strictly fulfilled this, but I now to play very regularly and I think I’m much improved.<\/p>\n

Final Grade: B<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Keep proper track of finances:<\/strong>\u00a0Much improved from the beginning of the year. I now have a financial adviser and I have my American finances in reasonable shape now. For a good while I kept a budget and checked my bank balances, but in the latter part of the year I’ve got out of the habit.<\/p>\n

Final Grade: C<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Get back to England for a couple of weeks:<\/strong>\u00a0I went and it was wonderful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Final Grade: A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So, my final report card was:<\/p>\n

D <\/strong><\/span>x1<\/span>, C<\/span><\/strong> x2,\u00a0B<\/span><\/strong> x2,\u00a0A<\/strong><\/span> x3<\/p>\n

Not bad! I’ll write about my new resolutions tomorrow \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I’ll post my new resolutions for 2012, but I thought I’d first do a quick review of those from last year. 1. Spend 30 minutes every day in Scripture:\u00a0A lot of my time in 2011 was spent reading and studying Scripture, but I didn’t manage to achieve the quiet lectio divina style of reading for which I was aiming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[233,708,604,709,106,373,56],"class_list":["post-8727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-chocolate","tag-dancing","tag-exercise","tag-finance","tag-new-year-resolution","tag-sacred-scripture","tag-united-kingdom-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8742,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}