{"id":3340,"date":"2016-01-02T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T01:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2016-02-13T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T14:55:08","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/02\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/40423570@N07\/24024231431\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Baltimore City Fireworks, New Years Day 2016\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1517\/24024231431_7b42cd1413_k.jpg\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" alt=\"Baltimore City Fireworks, New Years Day 2016\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m a day late, but I was tired yesterday. I took this photo just after midnight from the HarborView building in Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly hadn&#8217;t thought much about resolutions until yesterday. I watched a video that recommended making huge goals and then asked viewers the question: &#8220;How do you eat an elephant?&#8221; The answer was &#8220;one bite at a time&#8221;. It seems a little silly, but I like that way of thinking about things. Huge tasks are very achievable, you just have to break them down into small pieces and go after them one at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to publish my goals here, since science shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself?language=en\">telling people your goals<\/a> makes you less likely to achieve them, but I&#8217;ve decided to set some big goals for myself. I hope whatever goals you&#8217;ve set for yourself come to fruition and that you have a great new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m a day late, but I was tired yesterday. I took this photo just after midnight from the HarborView building in Baltimore, Maryland. I honestly hadn&#8217;t thought much about resolutions until yesterday. I watched a video that recommended making huge goals and then asked viewers the question: &#8220;How do you eat an elephant?&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/02\/happy-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy New Year!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}