{"id":15725,"date":"2017-01-02T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/?p=15725"},"modified":"2017-01-02T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T19:52:13","slug":"new-years-resolutions-intention-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/new-years-resolutions-intention-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and My Intention for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smoothies_mara_zemgaliete-680x905.jpg\" alt=\"smoothie bowls - photo by mara zemgaliete\" width=\"680\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smoothies_mara_zemgaliete-680x905.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smoothies_mara_zemgaliete-300x399.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smoothies_mara_zemgaliete-624x830.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smoothies_mara_zemgaliete.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m partnering with Amazon to share a list of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=16144516011&amp;pf_rd_r=MPJTE4M42F0ZEWDK1YF0&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_t=Landing&amp;pf_rd_i=284507&amp;pf_rd_p=d9da70f2-c4c6-4c28-827c-4a55b52da870&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-grid-t1-r1-c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no follow noopener\">my healthy New Year&#8217;s resolutions<\/a> over on their site! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, friends! It always feels good to start fresh, doesn&#8217;t it? \u00a0I love making resolutions and setting goals. It leaves me inspired and optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of December, I started making a list of all the big plans I have for 2017\u2014a wedding in September, <em>getting in shape for that wedding<\/em> (Daniel asked me how many push-ups I could do, so I tried, and&#8230;let\u2019s just say we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do between now and September), buying a house in the spring, working on a third book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-3-2-680x1020.jpg\" alt=\"kale chips - recipe from Eating in the Middle: A Mostly Wholesome Cookbook by Andie Mitchell \" width=\"680\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-3-2-680x1020.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-3-2-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-3-2-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-3-2.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To guide me as I move through the year and all of these big plans, I decided to set an overall intention:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Make it count<\/h3>\n<p>To me, &#8220;make it count&#8221; is about living mindfully, <em>intentionally<\/em>. I want to live with more purpose, to stay true to my priorities, and pause more often to enjoy the odd Tuesday, the weekends that always seem to fly by, all the meals I tend to forget I\u2019ve eaten. In essence, I don&#8217;t want 2017 to end wondering where it went. I want to make the year count, the days count, every bite count, my relationships count, and my work count. Starting now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-2-2-680x1020.jpg\" alt=\"honey roasted carrots - recipe from Eating in the Middle: A Mostly Wholesome Cookbook by Andie Mitchell \" width=\"680\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-2-2-680x1020.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-2-2-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-2-2-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eating_in_the_middle_a_mostly_wholesome_cookbook_andie_mitchell-2-2.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of my healthy resolutions, I\u2019m sharing the list\u00a0over on Amazon! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=16144516011&amp;pf_rd_r=MPJTE4M42F0ZEWDK1YF0&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_t=Landing&amp;pf_rd_i=284507&amp;pf_rd_p=d9da70f2-c4c6-4c28-827c-4a55b52da870&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-grid-t1-r1-c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no follow noopener\">Click here to see all 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Your turn\u2014what\u2019s your intention this year? Did you make resolutions?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post is sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=16144516011&amp;pf_rd_r=MPJTE4M42F0ZEWDK1YF0&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_t=Landing&amp;pf_rd_i=284507&amp;pf_rd_p=d9da70f2-c4c6-4c28-827c-4a55b52da870&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-grid-t1-r1-c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no follow noopener\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m partnering with Amazon to share a list of\u00a0my healthy New Year&#8217;s resolutions over on their site! \u00a0 Happy New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15725","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}