{"id":1787,"date":"2023-12-27T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"time-to-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"TIME TO PIVOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last several years, I have grown ever fonder of the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the stress of Christmas preparation has passed, everyone is content with their new stuff, and it&#8217;s a good excuse to sleep in and be lazy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the best part of December 26th is that I can now officially shift my attention to preparing for the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I were a cooler guy, you might think I am referring to planning a spectacular New Year&#8217;s Eve party.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not me &#8211; I am talking about reviewing the past year and then setting goals and making plans for the year to come. January is a great time to pivot.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next few days &#8211; the last of 2023 &#8211; I plan to post about the most significant things I have learned this past year (or so).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to do this to solidify the lessons in my own consciousness &#8211; before a new year of learning begins &#8211; but perhaps you will find them beneficial as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several years, I have grown ever fonder of the day after Christmas. All the stress of Christmas preparation has passed, everyone is content with their new stuff, and it&#8217;s a good excuse to sleep in and be lazy. But the best part of December 26th is that I can now officially shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}