{"id":12053,"date":"2012-03-05T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2012-03-05T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T16:34:21","slug":"year-long-projects-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/year-long-projects-check-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-Long Projects Check-In"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If anyone of you are like me, March seems to always be the point when I either give up, stop, or unknowingly let slide my year-long project goals, be it scrap-wise or in any other areas of my life. I always start the year with the best intentions, all fired up, only to have the fire sizzle down at the end of the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n

What makes this year different?<\/p>\n

Maybe because I spent the whole month of January warming up. December has always been the busiest time in our family, and I usually spend January just trying to recover from the holidays. Before I usually just dive in and make new goals without really thinking and discerning what is best for me and what I really WANT to accomplish. This year I spent the entire month taking it slow, not even overwhelming myself with all the ideas I see online and think of. <\/p>\n

Now, February came and went and what I did was just decide on what I want to do. And just take little baby steps. Of course, who is to say I’d finally accomplish and finish my year-long goals as it is only March? But I have some realizations I think anyone can relate to:<\/p>\n

1. Everyday is just as good as any day to start, or jump back in, or do things all over. I’m quite OC with the way I do things. When I set new goals, it needs to be at the start of the month, on a Monday — get the picture?. So when the first of the month comes by and Im not ready Id rather not go along with a project. I think letting go of this misconception has been totally freeing.
\n2. Little things add up and they become big things. Take it the positive or the negative way. For example, I’m doing Project Life by week and right now we are on Week 9. What I have printed and completed is up to Week 6. Granted I dont have Weeks 7-9 up yet, the little things I did all throughout the three weeks – writing down things in my iPhone, backing up photos weekly, deleting photos that I think are not vital to what I want to document in the long run – those things help. (True confession: My best intention was to share an UPDATED version of my PLife progress, but I haven’t gotten around to actually printing pictures just yet!)
\n3. It is always better to jump back in the wagon than to start all over again. Be it for year-long scrapbooking projects (Imagine waiting until next year to start all over again, or next month) or fitness (Don’t let all the checked in exercise and diet files go to waste!), dont make it too hard on yourself if you miss a day or even weeks of your planned output. Just dust yourself and jump right back in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If anyone of you are like me, March seems to always be the point when I either give up, stop, or unknowingly let slide my year-long project goals, be it scrap-wise or in any other areas of my life. I always start the year with the best intentions, all fired up, only to have the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":12054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12055,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions\/12055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}