{"id":13817,"date":"2008-01-18T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/20-tips-for-positive-new-year\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:13:47","slug":"20-tips-for-positive-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/20-tips-for-positive-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Tips for a Positive New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20 Tips for a Positive New Year<\/strong><br \/>1. Take a 10-30 minute \u201cThank you\u201d walk every day. While you walk practice gratitude.<br \/>    It is the ultimate anti-depressant.<br \/>2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.<br \/>3. Buy a TIVO, tape your late night shows and get more sleep\u2014it\u2019s the ultimate energizer.<br \/>4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement: My purpose is to___________ today.<br \/>5. Live with the 3 E&#8217;s. Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy.<br \/>6. Read more books than you did in 2007.<br \/>7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, tai chi, qigong and prayer. They provide us with daily<br \/>   fuel for our busy lives.<br \/>8. Do the \u201cone thing\u201d you have always wanted to do.<br \/>9. Dream more while you are awake.<br \/>10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less foods that are manufactured in plants.<br \/>11. Mentor someone and be mentored by someone.<br \/>12. Engage in daily random acts of kindness.<br \/>13. Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing positive energy into your life.<br \/>14. Don&#8217;t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.<br \/>15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.<br \/>16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.<br \/>17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.<br \/>18. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:<br \/>      I am thankful for __________.<br \/>      Today I accomplished____________.<br \/>19. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.<br \/>20. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Source : http:\/\/www.jongordon.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Tips for a Positive New Year1. Take a 10-30 minute \u201cThank you\u201d walk every day. While you walk practice gratitude. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.3. Buy a TIVO, tape your late night shows and get more sleep\u2014it\u2019s the ultimate energizer.4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement: My purpose is to___________ today.5. Live with the 3 E&#8217;s. Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy.6. Read more books than you did in 2007.7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, tai chi, qigong and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,1879],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","tag-tips","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72213,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions\/72213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}