{"id":910,"date":"2013-01-01T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:43:28","slug":"counting-blessings-instead-of-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/counting-blessings-instead-of-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Blessings Instead of Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-916\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeKind-110x150.jpg\" alt=\"BeKind\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeKind-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeKind-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeKind.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/>I haven&#8217;t made the expected list of resolutions on January 1 for many, many years. That process smacks of the classic struggle of good over evil and triumph through hard work and deprivation or denial. Building up a better life through willpower.\u00a0Focusing\u00a0on flaws and &#8216;improvements needed&#8217;. Doomed to failure.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t trusted that model for a long time. Now, even my favourite philosopher &#8211; Dr. Phil &#8211; says there&#8217;s no such thing as willpower. I KNEW it!<\/p>\n<p>And so I&#8217;m taking this time to reflect on the past year and use the turning of the calendar page as a cue to count my blessings. Somehow, doing that has had a more lasting positive effect on my life than being resolute ever did.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll share my list of blessings when I&#8217;m done. It does seem to be a very long one this year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But I will say this: Thanks, Flora, for your kind words. And a very happy and prosperous 2013 to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made the expected list of resolutions on January 1 for many, many years. That process smacks of the classic struggle of good over evil and triumph through hard work and deprivation or denial. Building up a better life through willpower.\u00a0Focusing\u00a0on flaws and &#8216;improvements needed&#8217;. Doomed to failure. I haven&#8217;t trusted that model for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-personal","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}