{"id":369,"date":"2017-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/25\/a-christmas-wish-list\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T13:11:28","slug":"a-christmas-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/a-christmas-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ho ho ho folks! It’s Christmas time. The idea of Christmas either came from watching Christmassy movies or reading multiple Enid Blyton movies.<\/p>\n

However, my introduction to the Indian Christmas\u00a0came after being married into a Catholic family. The best part about marrying into a different culture? More occasions to celebrate.<\/p>\n

So now Christmas is all about decorating the house, setting up the tree, setting up the crib, meeting the family and baking a boozy cake.<\/p>\n

While the adults play Santa to the kids, I thought I wouldn’t be amiss to mention some things on my wish list since most of these are also things that money can’t buy.<\/p>\n

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  1. Wake me up at 6 am every morning:<\/strong> This year, there was a point in time when I was ready to start my day by 6:15 am. Those days have usually been very productive unlike even if I wake up an hour later. In the coming year, I wish I am able to wake up by 6 every morning to breeze through the day.<\/li>\n
  2. Keep me away from distractions:<\/strong> I have a long list of things I want to do but usually end up getting distracted from\u00a0doing those thanks to the plethora of those – Netflix, Amazon Prime or simply lazing around.<\/li>\n
  3. Make me more patient:<\/strong>\u00a0Any big change takes time. I wish there was a\u00a0way to keep that in mind at all times.<\/li>\n
  4. Keep me away from sugar:<\/strong>\u00a0I have now been going to the gym regularly for over and year and a half. However, any progress I could expect to have made has been thwarted by the inability to keep away from sugar, especially when accompanied by chocolate.<\/li>\n
  5. Put me ahead of technology:<\/strong> The experience of blogging has been a steep learning curve for me. There have been times when I have taken 2 steps back before I could move a step forward in the right direction. I wish I could get to the right path with minimum number of such mis-steps.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ho ho ho folks! It’s Christmas time. The idea of Christmas either came from watching Christmassy movies or reading multiple Enid Blyton movies. However, my introduction to the Indian Christmas\u00a0came after being married into a Catholic family. The best part about marrying into a different culture? More occasions to celebrate. So now Christmas is all about decorating the house, setting up the tree, setting up the crib, meeting the family and baking a boozy cake. While the adults play Santa to the kids, I thought I wouldn’t be amiss to mention some things on my wish list since most of these are also things that money can’t buy. Wake me up at 6 am every morning: This year, there was a point in time when I was ready to start my day by 6:15 am. Those days have usually been very productive unlike even if I wake up an hour later. In the coming year, I wish I am able to wake up by 6 every morning to breeze through the day. Keep me away from distractions: I have a long list of things I want to do but usually end up getting distracted from\u00a0doing those thanks to the plethora of those – Netflix, Amazon Prime or simply lazing around. Make me more patient:\u00a0Any big change takes time. I wish there was a\u00a0way to keep that in mind at all times. Keep me away from sugar:\u00a0I have now been going to the gym regularly for over and year and a half. However, any progress I could expect to have made has been thwarted by the inability to keep away from sugar, especially when accompanied by chocolate. Put me ahead of technology: The experience of blogging has been a steep learning curve for me. There have been times when I have taken 2 steps back before I could move a step forward in the right direction. I wish I could get to the right path with minimum number of such mis-steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[65],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementummoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}