Around this time every year, people everywhere gear up to attack New Year\u2019s resolutions with short-lived vigor, while people like me get ready to ridicule some of the more over-the-top examples of the \u201cNew year, new me!\u201d crowd. This year, perhaps we should consider the adage \u201cless is more\u201d by cutting old habits rather than implementing new ones.<\/p>\n
Put simply, it isn\u2019t feasible to jump into 20 different hobbies\/routines\/lifestyles every time a new year rolls around, yet we seem to convince ourselves otherwise every January 1st; if your heart isn\u2019t in what you\u2019re trying to do, you won\u2019t stick with it, no matter how much you \u201cwant\u201d to do it. <\/p>\n
Take the gym crowd, for example: you may have an objective understanding that working out is good for you while actively hating the gym, making it difficult for you to stick to what ends up being a shaky resolution.<\/p>\n
What IS feasible is taking stock of everything that you do that doesn\u2019t fit into your paradigm of operation. Do you spend an unwanted extra hour or two on the computer each day? If so, perhaps it\u2019s time to start drawing the line at 5:00 sharp rather than letting clients hold you over. <\/p>\n
The same goes for personal preferences as well: you may feel as though you need to devote countless hours of your time to weeding or cleaning, but it may be better for you to focus on the things that actually matter to you.<\/p>\n
Obviously, we all have responsibilities that demand our attention (we\u2019re not suggesting that you start ditching your kids\u2019 soccer practice in favor of Tequila Tuesdays) but it is possible to exaggerate those responsibilities\u2019 importance.<\/p>\n
What you do with the spare time from your lifestyle pruning is completely up to you; however, by focusing on your actual hobbies, interests, and passions, you\u2019ll most likely find that your quality of life improves while your day-to-day stress level decreases exponentially.<\/p>\n
2018 doesn\u2019t have to be the year that you start something; instead, consider making it the year that you close some overdue chapters in your personal book to make a little more space for the things that you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(EDITORIAL) 2018 doesn\u2019t have to be the year that you start something. Embody the phrase \u201cless is more\u201d by quitting and letting go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":10515,"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,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[433,1234],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-productivity","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/personal-choices.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}