{"id":2565,"date":"2011-01-24T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2011-01-24T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:07:16","slug":"monday-motivation-in-praise-of-slacking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2011\/01\/24\/monday-motivation-in-praise-of-slacking-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Motivation: In Praise of Slacking Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"A guy relaxing in a park.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/relaxing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" \/>What I did this past weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My wife and I visited my mom and ate Thai food.<\/li>\n<li>I hung out with my wife.<\/li>\n<li>I watched the <em>entire<\/em> first season of <a title=\"Link to FX's Louie site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fxnetworks.com\/shows\/originals\/louie\/\">Louie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I watched the Chicago Bears lose to the stinky Green Bay Packers. (Ah, well &#8212; there&#8217;s always next year&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>I goofed off online.<\/li>\n<li>I read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t do this past weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Record and edit my <a title=\"Link to the Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors Podcast.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtripfromhell.com\">podcast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Edit some things needing to be edited.<\/li>\n<li>Work on an upcoming presentation.<\/li>\n<li>Write!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I took a weekend off.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The world didn&#8217;t end because I wasn&#8217;t busy.<\/li>\n<li>People didn&#8217;t rush to unsubscribe to my podcast because it will go up tonight, instead of yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t forget how to write.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would have loved having a productive weekend, but I loved the weekend I had doing not much at all.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re burned out, don&#8217;t feel guilty taking a break. It&#8217;s when that break becomes habit that we all need to worry about our writing priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I did this past weekend: My wife and I visited my mom and ate Thai food. I hung out with my wife. I watched the entire first season of Louie. I watched the Chicago Bears lose to the stinky Green Bay Packers. (Ah, well &#8212; there&#8217;s always next year&#8230;) I goofed off online. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}