{"id":6202,"date":"2023-01-27T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2023-01-27T02:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:45:15","slug":"fifteen-plus-eleven-the-important-stuff-can-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/fifteen-plus-eleven-the-important-stuff-can-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"[fifteen] plus eleven &#8230; the &#8220;important&#8221; stuff can wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6203\" width=\"714\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221126_211152-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; still falling behind. But I&#8217;m not giving up on getting back on track. The key problem is making sure that time is carved out in the day for blogging, taking walks, taking care of yourself; once you start to let that slip, six months have gone by and you haven&#8217;t posted. And when you have a TODO list two inches thick, it really is hard to make sure you carve out that time &#8230; it&#8217;s easy to trick yourself that it&#8217;s much more important to get the &#8220;important&#8221; stuff done &#8230; even though, sooner or later, you must do &#8220;unimportant&#8221; things like laundry. Building new habits is like doing the laundry &#8230; the world turns, and so must the dryer, and if you don&#8217;t make time for it to get done, you&#8217;ll be sad when it doesn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Call your wife, take a walk, post on your blog.  The &#8220;important&#8221; stuff can wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: A nice meal, somewhere (Iron Hill Brewery?) featuring fish and chips, a Moscow mule, and a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; still falling behind. But I&#8217;m not giving up on getting back on track. The key problem is making sure that time is carved out in the day for blogging,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-blogging-every-day","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}