{"id":1464,"date":"2015-01-01T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2015-01-01T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T06:53:17","slug":"a-year-in-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/01\/01\/a-year-in-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"A year in preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 2015 New Year&#8217;s resolutions for all to see, and to help hold me accountable.<\/p>\n<h3>Lose 30 pounds<\/h3>\n<p>I hopped on the scale after landing from the plane today at a very unhealthy 199\u00c2\u00a0pounds.\u00c2\u00a0In 364 days, I&#8217;ll be a much healthier 169 pounds if I hit this goal. I&#8217;d love to be at 175 pounds\u00c2\u00a0as a minimum, but 30 pounds would be good for the soul.<\/p>\n<h3>Read 12 books<\/h3>\n<p>I read a lot more this year than I have for a really long time, and I really enjoyed it. I&#8217;m going to go for it again, and read 12 books this year!<\/p>\n<h3>Food-related resolutions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sugar\/honey in my tea only once per day (this resolution is suspended when in the South, and drinking sweet tea)<\/li>\n<li>Increase my list of things I can cook beyond kofte, rice, and salad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Business-related resolutions<\/h3>\n<p>I have 3 very specific goals to hit at TokBox this year, and I&#8217;m going to hit all three with roaring success. Within those goals are business, people, and product objectives all of which I&#8217;m hoping to write about with gusto over the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also adding a stretch goal of building the mobile versions of Amplifize and re-launching AboutMyDive.com (as I&#8217;d like to dive a bunch this year).<\/p>\n<h3>Personal-related resolutions<\/h3>\n<p>I want to end the year knowing that I&#8217;ve done a better job with relationships than I have the last few years. There&#8217;s no great way to measure this. It&#8217;s really just a feeling more than anything else. But I do know that I want to be better at it, and I&#8217;m going to work on it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a wonderful 2015 (that I&#8217;ll fully document here for everyone to see)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2015 New Year&#8217;s resolutions for all to see, and to help hold me accountable. Lose 30 pounds I hopped on the scale after landing from the plane today at a very unhealthy 199\u00c2\u00a0pounds.\u00c2\u00a0In 364 days, I&#8217;ll be a much healthier 169 pounds if I hit this goal. I&#8217;d love to be at 175 pounds\u00c2\u00a0as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-nC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1626,"url":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/07\/02\/mid-year-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":0},"title":"Mid-year review","date":"July 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I posted my resolutions for 2015 in January, and since we're at the halfway point I thought I'd give an update. Lose 30 pounds Well pictures don't lie: \u00a0 I'm very solidly in the 180s now thanks to Ramadan. 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