{"id":109308,"date":"2016-01-05T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/109308\/what-did-you-leave-behind-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T07:15:46","slug":"what-did-you-leave-behind-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2016\/01\/05\/what-did-you-leave-behind-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Diva&#8217;s Ink-What did you leave behind in 2015?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days into the New Year and with the festive season celebrations and festivities out of the way you are probably anticipating how the year will unfold for you.<\/p>\n<p>In the same breath, New Year\u2019s resolutions and goals creep into one\u2019s mind.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This is also the time where people pen down what they would like to see themselves achieve in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>If you are among those jotting down resolutions and goals for the year, don\u2019t fall into the procrastination trap.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Procrastination is one of the reasons why we never accomplish all or any of the things on the lists.<\/p>\n<p>Rid yourself of procrastination and start working towards achieving those goals now.<\/p>\n<p>Even though you want to achieve them later in the year, begin the process.<\/p>\n<p>It also dawned on me that procrastination is not the only thing holding us back; we tend to have other contributing factors as well.<\/p>\n<p>You find that we have unnecessary baggage that we carry over to each year that we should just leave behind.<\/p>\n<p>I took to Facebook to find out what others did not wish to take with them to 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thandeka Makeleni said, \u201cI definitely left negativity behind.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nomonde Ndlovu said, \u201cToxic relationships; be it lovers, friends or family, this year, I am not letting them pull me down.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Oleva Velbroek said, \u201cFear, I am not taking fear with me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Moitswadi Maponyane said, \u201cI left all the bad things that happened in my life in 2015, I let them go and got into the New Year with a fresh and positive mindset.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I for one left procrastination behind, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Take time to search yourself and see what unnecessary luggage you are not carrying with you into 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107339\/juicy-tidbits-ringing-in-the-new-year\/\">Juicy Tidbits-Ringing in the New Year<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='79506308ef4d4cdfea1383bce14589a2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take time to search yourself before making New Year\u2019s resolutions and goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":109309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8518,6],"tags":[9297,9298,9299,7531,1106,979,969,9296,9265,2556,9266,9295,1167,2749,6127],"class_list":["post-109308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-opinion-edition","tag-9297","tag-2016-goals","tag-2016-resolutions","tag-divas-ink","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-new-year","tag-new-year-goals","tag-new-years-resolutions","tag-opinion-2","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-resolutions"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"tag_labels":["2016","2016 goals","2016 resolutions","Diva's Ink","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","goal","goals","new year","new year goals","New Year's resolutions","opinion","Puleng Sekabate","resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}