{"id":293,"date":"2012-01-03T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=293"},"modified":"2012-01-03T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:20:08","slug":"love-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Love List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Courtney Carver&#8217;s post <a href=\"Get office cleaned up!\">How to Make a Love List<\/a>. Her suggestion is: Instead of a list of New Year&#8217;s resolutions, create a list of things you&#8217;d love to do or start this year.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>love<\/em> this idea, and I think this is a very good point in my life for it. I spent the last few months of 2011 feeling discouraged with some things in my life, like a lack of progress toward goals. I began doing some reading and thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/100-days\/\">goals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theminimalists.com\">minimalism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/crutches\/\">de-cluttering<\/a> \u2013 simplifying my life in general.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_294\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294\" title=\"looking-out-window\" src=\"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/wp-content\/uploads\/looking-out-window.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Libertinus (flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As soon as I read Courtney&#8217;s post, my eyes drifted to the window and my thoughts turned with longing to things I&#8217;d love to do this year&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get back into woodcarving<\/li>\n<li>continue learning Mandarin<\/li>\n<li>de-clutter my house<\/li>\n<li>travel<\/li>\n<li>and more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The interesting thing about writing down your &#8220;love list&#8221; and looking at it in black-and-white is the realization that most of these things are really quite possible. There&#8217;s no reason <em>not<\/em> to do them other than our own bad habit of not prioritizing the things that are important to us. If you take an honest look at how you&#8217;re spending your time and think about whether or not the things you&#8217;re spending it on are important to you, it&#8217;s pretty likely that you&#8217;ll be able to clear up a little bit of time to spend on something on your love list (really: is watching TV more important than your top wish?).<\/p>\n<p>Even if you start with only one thing, the joy you&#8217;ll get from that time will likely encourage you to free up more time for other things that are important to you. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do this year.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s on your love list for 2012?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Courtney Carver&#8217;s post How to Make a Love List. Her suggestion is: Instead of a list of New Year&#8217;s resolutions, create a list of things you&#8217;d love to do or start this year. I love this idea, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}