{"id":194,"date":"2025-01-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/?p=194"},"modified":"2024-12-31T11:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:47:50","slug":"new-year-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/new-year-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article will be published either on New Year&#8217;s Eve or on the New Year, depending on where you are in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For reasons I can only guess, this seems to be a time when people spend more time reflecting on their achievements, and setting goals for the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as you have some clear goals that you want to pursue, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really important when you set them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-practical-software-development wp-block-embed-practical-software-development\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4Jp6926Jv3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/the-recipe-for-success\/\">The recipe for success<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The recipe for success&#8221; &#8212; Practical Software Development\" src=\"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/the-recipe-for-success\/embed\/#?secret=WZ5dZJyR5i#?secret=4Jp6926Jv3\" data-secret=\"4Jp6926Jv3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as I explained in the article &#8220;The recipe for success&#8221;, the first step to being successful in anything is to have a clear goal, but that is not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a goal that you truly and deeply want to achieve, you&#8217;ll need to make it happen. As far as I know, there isn&#8217;t a New Year&#8217;s fairy that will make your wishes come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goals by themselves are words to the wind. It doesn&#8217;t matter how well-intentioned your goals are if you don&#8217;t plan and work to make them happen. This will only lead to regret next New Year for the wasted time and the amazing dreams that did not come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please refer to the article &#8220;The recipe for success&#8221; for examples of what you can do to turn these goals into reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish that now that you know all this, you can achieve all your goals for this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy New Year!<br>JM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Share if you find this content useful, and Follow me on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/comm\/mynetwork\/discovery-see-all?usecase=PEOPLE_FOLLOWS&amp;followMember=jmarmijo\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0to be notified of new articles.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article will be published either on New Year&#8217;s Eve or on the New Year, depending on where you are in the world. For reasons I can only guess, this seems to be a time when people spend more time reflecting on their achievements, and setting goals for the new year. As long as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,8],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growth","tag-goals","tag-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jm.armijo.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}