2014 is almost gone and usually that means people begin to throw out the new year\u2019s resolutions such as wanting to lose weight. For myself I usually take the time to reflect upon things that I want to try and spend more time on as I always want to learn something new. In a way, a new year for me gives me a reason to pursue different hobbies and challenges.<\/p>\n
I always find it\u2019s a great way to learn new skills and traits that we would normally have to spend a lot of money to acquire. I also look at any items I purchased and whether or not I have adequately justified its purchase as a potential factor in determining what I should do. Example, if I spent hundreds of dollars on exercise gear and haven\u2019t used it then I would either find a way to sell it in the new year or to develop an activity around it.<\/p>\n
One thing is for sure though where whatever I do it shouldn\u2019t require me to invest a lot of money in doing so. That way I should be genuinely passionate about whatever it is I am doing as opposed to wasted money being the main motivator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2014 is almost gone and usually that means people begin to throw out the new year\u2019s resolutions such as wanting to lose weight. For myself I usually take the time to reflect upon things that I want to try and spend more time on as I always want to learn something new. In a way, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5377,1811,209,1114,393,467,2329],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-5377","tag-for-fun","tag-hobbies","tag-learning","tag-new-years","tag-passion","tag-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tablet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1DJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}