{"id":930,"date":"2014-02-17T02:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T10:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=930"},"modified":"2014-02-17T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T10:15:55","slug":"goals-for-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/02\/17\/goals-for-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals for 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy James has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threesixfivetothirty.com\/21-goals\/\">21 goals<\/a> that he&#8217;s trying to accomplish before turning 30. I spoke about it in the blog post where I introduced his blog. I realized that I wanted to make a list too, but mine is much, much shorter.<\/p>\n<p>My goals before 30 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get down to 175 lbs<\/li>\n<li>Get promoted<\/li>\n<li>Fall more in love with Micky, Amelia, and Luka than I was at 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. I really do think three decades will have been well executed if I pull off these three goals. But damn if two outta three aren&#8217;t going to be hard as hell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy James has 21 goals that he&#8217;s trying to accomplish before turning 30. I spoke about it in the blog post where I introduced his blog. I realized that I wanted to make a list too, but mine is much, much shorter. My goals before 30 are: Get down to 175 lbs Get promoted [&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":[66,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-f0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":744,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/01\/06\/scoring-goals-losing-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":930,"position":0},"title":"Scoring goals! Losing games :-(","date":"January 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I scored some sick goals tonight, but we lost 9 - 13. More details to come after my shower Note: This is being updated a day later because I passed out and fell asleep We showed up at a brand new gym ready to play soccer. 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This came down to three factors (1) I got the Flu, and literally shaked, sweat, and starved myself down a few pounds (2) intermittent fasting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Year Resolutions&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1904,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2018\/08\/04\/2018-goals-july-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":930,"position":4},"title":"2018 Goals - July Update","date":"August 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":";tldr Some wonderful new patterns are emerging, and I think I'm more sustainably finding a path towards health. Also shoutout to John Holland and all the other folks who always have my back on these goals. 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