{"id":469,"date":"2022-02-16T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T23:33:00","slug":"silly-self-limiting-impositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Silly Self-Limiting Impositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, 2022!<\/p>\n<p>When I began this blog nine years ago, my intent was to publish regularly. Not such a silly desire. But, I also set an unrealistic imposition. I had to publish no less than one thousand words for every post. Silly. What happened? I would almost always hesitate to publish because I didn&#8217;t know if I could or would write a thousand word tome each and every time. The result? I hardly published at all during the last nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Today, February 16, 2022, that limitation comes off! Whenever I have some thought I want to share, I&#8217;ll come here and write. Maybe it will be a thousand words. Maybe, it will be ten.<\/p>\n<p>I thank my brother-of-another-mother Marc Schwartz for helping me see past this silly limitation. Hope you&#8217;ll stay for the ride and come back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Am I Changing?\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;m letting go of things I impose on myself which don&#8217;t serve me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, 2022! When I began this blog nine years ago, my intent was to publish regularly. Not such a silly desire. But, I also set an unrealistic imposition. I had to publish no less than one thousand words for every post. Silly. What happened? 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