{"id":1857,"date":"2018-02-02T23:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T04:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/ruminations\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2018-02-02T23:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T04:25:31","slug":"2018-goals-january-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2018\/02\/02\/2018-goals-january-update\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Goals – January Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get to 175 lbs
\n<\/strong>Not the best start, but 4 pounds is something. I started the year at 210 lbs (holy shit – I know), and I’m down to 206. Given CKO and Vegas, it isn’t horrible. It’s also going to take more than disciplined diet though because I’m not that disciplined \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

1 book per month
\n<\/strong>I finished The Great Transformation<\/a>\u00a0by Karl Polyani. It’s superb. I think everyone should do themselves a huge favor, and put this book on their bed stand. It’s a treatise on how economic liberalism is destined to fail, and how we’ve spent 200 years lying to ourselves about the viability of raw capitalism. Look all around us, and we’ll see that Polyani was right, and his views on Poor Laws and Regulations could have easily predicted the economic situations in which we find ourselves today (poor labor protections, growing divide between poor and rich, misuse of land, money and people). A much better book for the emerging Socialist than Mr. Marx in my opinion.<\/p>\n

2 date nights with Micky
\n<\/strong>We pulled this one off in a bit of a funny way. We did a date night to see The Shape of Water<\/a>\u00a0– which is a stunning film. And then ran away from the kids for a day (courtesy of Doruk and Hanna) to go house hunting in Upstate NY. I think though in February that we’ll try harder to do two proper date nights \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

1 date per child per month<\/strong>
\nI failed horribly at this one. I think I’ll change this one to 1 date per child per quarter. There really aren’t enough weekends and moments to find 1 date per month. The upcoming ACC Basketball Tournament could be a good start…<\/p>\n

Overall – not a bad start. It’s been good forcing myself to read more, and I think I’m going to start to make more and more progress on the weight goal. More information on both coming soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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