{"id":13,"date":"2011-12-13T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-12-13T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:47:10","slug":"challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we all get so busy with life we forget to live it. Jobs, family, pets, housework, yardwork, etc. Everyone and everything seems to demand our time and there\u2019s nothing left for just me. I won\u2019t even get into the procrastination I seem to easily do.<br \/>\nSo I\u2019m going to challenge myself with 2 goals this year. First is to get back into my 5 mm wetsuit which requires losing about 15 lbs. This will enable me to stay warmer doing one of my favorite activities \u2013 scuba diving. My second challenge will be to increase my body strength, in particular my arms\/shoulders to help me control my shooting arm so I can advance to the next level in my competition pistol shooting. (note how both goals relate to things I like? That\u2019s important).<br \/>\nGoals are good. They can keep you focused and give a sense of accomplishment when you met them. They are also good for scheduling \u2018me time\u2019 and not letting others rule your days. Just say \u2018sorry, can\u2019t do that, I have I to work on my goals\u2019.<br \/>\nPick 2 thing you want to accomplish next year, tell the world, then go do it. If you don\u2019t get it completely done, no worries, just make sure it was because you who decided that, not someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we all get so busy with life we forget to live it. Jobs, family, pets, housework, yardwork, etc. Everyone and everything seems to demand our time and there\u2019s nothing left for just me. I won\u2019t even get into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/?p=13\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[5,7,6,3,4],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-challenges","tag-enjoy","tag-life","tag-midlife","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}