{"id":58826,"date":"2014-01-23T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=58826"},"modified":"2014-01-21T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:40:28","slug":"february-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=58826","title":{"rendered":"February Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Diana La Femina, Head Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=56428\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ South Carolina<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February Resolutions<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-57671 alignleft\" alt=\"diana la femina\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina-300x225.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina-386x290.jpg 386w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina-193x145.jpg 193w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>New Year\u2019s Resolutions are beautiful things. They\u2019re full of hope and optimism. We make lofty goals and envision our success. And then February rolls around, and most people look back at their resolutions and see failure in one short month.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps your resolution was all-or-nothing, perhaps it was out of reach, or perhaps you were just so exhausted from the holidays that you crashed and didn\u2019t have the energy to work towards anything. Regardless, those resolutions are now bitter memories. (Unless you\u2019ve actually stuck to your resolutions, in which case congratulations! You\u2019re far better at setting achievable goals than I.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I\u2019m making a call for February Resolutions.<\/strong> Let\u2019s make resolutions for the New Year (slightly delayed) that are a bit more realistic, and that take obstacles into account. Here are mine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m going to do one thing every week to help my career (working on my portfolio [which I hope to make into a future blog post], sending out emails, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m going to read three articles every week relating to libraries and librarianship.<\/li>\n<li>Once a month I\u2019m going to take a day and be as lazy or self-indulgent as I want; no guilt over staying in my pyjamas all day, or spending money to get my hair cut or see a movie.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m going to read one book per month (I\u2019ve had NO TIME to read since I started my job in March, and it\u2019s killing me a little inside every day).<\/li>\n<li>Once every month or two I\u2019m going to volunteer somewhere in some way that has nothing to do with my career.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m going to aim to eat as healthy as I can, meal plan, and exercise; not to lose weight or deprive myself, but to feel as healthy as I can manage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are all ideals and things for me to aspire to. I will inevitably slip up from time to time, but there\u2019s no point in putting myself down for it. Things happen and get in the way, but the important thing is to look to your goals as ideals. They\u2019re not practical steps to get somewhere, nor should they be. It\u2019s the whole \u201cshoot for the moon and if you fail you\u2019ll still be amongst the stars\u201d thing. (Which always annoyed me, by the way, because astronomically speaking stars are light years further from us than the moon, but the thought is pretty.) If you aim for these goals and be gentle with yourself you\u2019ll improve regardless of whether you achieve your goals or not. But they shouldn\u2019t be things that you MUST do. None of this, \u201cI\u2019ll lose 20 lbs by March 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u201d or anything. If the goal is quantifiable then it should be something realistic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Diana La Femina, Head Editor, INALJ South Carolina February Resolutions New Year\u2019s Resolutions are beautiful things. They\u2019re full of hope and optimism. We make lofty goals and envision our success. And then February rolls around, and most people look back at their resolutions and see failure in one short month. Perhaps your resolution was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=58826\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,3996,3633,5880],"class_list":["post-58826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-diana-la-femina","tag-inalj-south-carolina","tag-resolutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/diana-la-femina.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-fiO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}