{"id":375,"date":"2017-01-10T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:52:22","slug":"a-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2299ac1c-114e-392c-90ab-625b33932b9e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2299ac1c-114e-392c-90ab-625b33932b9e.jpg\" alt=\"2299ac1c-114e-392c-90ab-625b33932b9e\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2299ac1c-114e-392c-90ab-625b33932b9e.jpg 200w, https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2299ac1c-114e-392c-90ab-625b33932b9e-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 2017 &#8211; the beginning of a new year. Are you someone who makes resolutions or reviews goals and sets new ones? I usually take time at the end of a year to review the year past, look at any accomplishments and then begin to look ahead. I realize goals may be made at any time, reviewed, refined and met but somehow a new calendar year attracts me to this exercise. I planned to have this post on closer to the beginning of the month, yet procrastination reared its ugly head. I gave in rather than worked through but I will not give up. <\/p>\n<p>I read the Essence Publishing newsletter and found an encouraging article titled &#8220;Three Tips For Staying On Track With Your Writing&#8221; It fit with my reflections of possible goals for 2017. The three tips mentioned were:<br \/>\n1. Making it part of your daily routine<br \/>\n2. Having an accountability partner<br \/>\n3. Keep a writing journal or commonplace book<\/p>\n<p>I liked these ideas and did more research on the second and third ones which I will share in separate blog posts. For today I choose to set aside time to write, to edit, to journal, and to work toward one of my goals for this year &#8211; write more. Sometimes I stare at the blank computer screen or piece of paper and wonder what words to place on it. Other times the ideas flow faster than my fingers can move and I need to learn patience &#8211; one word &#8211; one sentence at a time. Then repeat the process tomorrow.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/excuses-greater-than-dreams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/excuses-greater-than-dreams.jpg\" alt=\"excuses-greater-than-dreams\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I look ahead to all the blank days of this new year I must ask myself these questions &#8211; Are my excuses bigger than my dreams? Will I give in to procrastination or allow the negative voices in my head to take control and stop any progress or will I sit down and place words on a page? <\/p>\n<p>What about you? Have you taken on a new challenge? How do you keep working towards your goals? How do you work at making your writing, art, speaking, storytelling or any other endeavor part of your daily routine? <\/p>\n<p>May you find 2017 a year to meet goals and enjoy the creative journey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2017 &#8211; the beginning of a new year. Are you someone who makes resolutions or reviews goals and sets new ones? I usually take time at the end of a year to review the year past, look at any accomplishments and then begin to look ahead. I realize goals may be made at any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}