{"id":3290,"date":"2009-05-04T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2009-05-04T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T19:20:17","slug":"super-busy-you-just-need-a-little-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/05\/04\/super-busy-you-just-need-a-little-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Busy? You just need a little Zen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Zen Habits Super Busy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/super-busy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3291\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"super-busy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/super-busy.png\" alt=\"super-busy\" width=\"393\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/super-busy.png 393w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/super-busy-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a>How many of you need to be reminded to take a few minutes for yourself?\u00c2\u00a0 Or even just to take a deep breath and relax?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve spent my whole life in &#8216;go-mode&#8217; and I&#8217;m not even sure I really know how to turn it off.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is, I love what I do and can just keep doing it and never get bored.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I need to take a step back sometimes and remind myself to &#8216;be present&#8217; instead of always thinking of the next step.\u00c2\u00a0 Every now and then I&#8217;ll take a nap in the sun and wake up feeling refreshed, energized and ready to go but does that count as enjoying life?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sad and glad that I&#8217;m not the only one that has this issue and that there are people out there to remind me to be mindful and even give me the step by step how-to.\u00c2\u00a0 I try to read the Zen Habits blog when I can and thought that this article was worth passing on.<\/p>\n<p><em>from Zen Habits<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The idea of being mindful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d being present, being more conscious of life as it happens \u00e2\u20ac\u201d seems a bit impossible to many of the super busy.<\/p>\n<p>But not only is it possible, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d submit that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desirable, and that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll help the busy (and non-busy) achieve their goals and enjoy life more fully.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zen Habits\" href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2009\/04\/the-mindfulness-guide-for-the-super-busy-how-to-live-life-to-the-fullest\/\">&lt;&lt;Read The Mindfulness Guide for the Super Busy!&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you need to be reminded to take a few minutes for yourself?\u00c2\u00a0 Or even just to take a deep breath and relax?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve spent my whole life in &#8216;go-mode&#8217; and I&#8217;m not even sure I really know how to turn it off.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is, I love [&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-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}