{"id":22297,"date":"2011-05-14T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2016-09-17T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T10:58:13","slug":"discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think of myself as a very undisciplined person. I procrastinate a lot and need external motivation to do the chores I hate. So I&#8217;m always amazed that I can successfully work for myself at home. I dragged myself out of bed at seven this morning (seven!) and was in the office hard at work by eight. I knew that tomorrow&#8217;s deadline is doable but would require very long days. I was right; I didn&#8217;t clock out till 8 tonight and it&#8217;ll probably be the same tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, I don&#8217;t work straight through. I took a break in the morning to put ingredients in the breadmaker, had a proper lunch break,\u00a0 went on a walk in the late afternoon to regain my focus, and had a proper dinner break (mustard chicken with veggies and fresh bread to mop up the sauce!). I still managed to put in close to a ten-hour work day.<\/p>\n<p>This is truly the way I prefer to earn my bread; working in intense spurts at my own pace. I&#8217;m not going to give up working at building a viable and steady self-income stream even while I am very open to finding an external job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think of myself as a very undisciplined person. I procrastinate a lot and need external motivation to do the chores I hate. So I&#8217;m always amazed that I can successfully work for myself at home. I dragged myself out of bed at seven this morning (seven!) and was in the office hard at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,11,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-personal","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}